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A GIFT-BOOK OF THE
SCOTTISH REGI\fENT5

"With a preface, by Tlie

EARL of RDSEBERY,KiG

PUBLISHED FOriHEGLASGCW HERALD" gw2
BY HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LONDON, NEW YORK. &D TORONTO

PREFACE

BY THE EARL OF ROSEBERY

K.G., K.T.

THERE could scarcely be a more opportune
publication for Scotsmen than a record of
the valour of their historical regiments. This war
has revealed and developed the strong and undying
soul which animates them, and maintains through
generations and even centuries a corporate and
jealous pride. Whether in the kilt or the trews, or
on the ' beautiful grey horses ' admired by Napoleon,
they appeal irresistibly even to the most pacific
natures in Scotland, and that is half the secret of
the unmatched recruiting returns from the ancient
kingdom during the present war. United as clans,
proudly conscious of the battles on their colours,
holding their traditional reputation as a sacred trust,
they are a brotherhood of honour on which the
country confidently relies in peace and in war.

The spirit, the name, and the tradition are wholly
Scottish. But it must be remembered that the men
are not all of that race. Many come from all parts

'^ SCOTLAND FOR EVER

give them the succession and the prestirre of
those heroes who have gone before. ^ ^ ^

ways The'sc'f "'"'""" '^^^-^ '" ^" ^^ "^
with fe J tel: 7"' r'' """'^^' ^"'^ -d-nturous,
with few temptations at home to a mihtary career

became permanently British. Anothe! famou 're"
mosses, i he Covenanters in their t„rn i, i_

»ry or pciWe ,„ Jemil. ' " "" ^^-

The details will be mven in .!.„
S.i«ly i, i, well when we f,. r ''^ ™"-

"::trei7~""™-"-^

ancestors conquering nobler enemies. This is

PREFACE y

not to say that the Prussian soldier is not, as regards
valour, a brave combatant. But he is directed by
men who have placed themselves outside the pale of
humanity, and shares their responsibility. Let us
hope that once more, and soon, it may be given to
a Scottish regiment to storm, as in Aytoun's spirited
verses, an island on the Rhine.

I will indulge myself with only one significant
extract; >t regards the Scots in Belgium during the
Waterloo campaign. The natives admired the English
but always returned to the Scots with, ' But the Scots'
they are good and kind as well as brave ; they are
the only soldiers who become members of the family
in the houses in which they are billeted ; they even
carry about the children, and do the domestic work.'
The favourite proverbial form of compliment was
Lions in the field and lambs in the house.' That
.s exquisite praise. The unhappy Netherlands can
now compare these Scottish soldiers with the wild
beasts who have desolated their country and ravaged
their homes. °

I am heartily grateful for this stimulating book.

ROSEBERY.

CONTENTS
CHAPTER I

PACK.

Seventeenth Century Wars, 1634-1697 . . . , i

CHAPTER H
Campaigns in Flanders and Germany, 1691-1745 , , j.

CHAPTER HI
The Wars in Canada, America, and the West Indies, 1757-1809 30

CHAPTER IV
Napoleon in Egypt, 1801-1807 .

CHAPITR V
The Peninsular Campaigns, 1808-1814 .

CHAPTER VI
Quatre Bras and Waterloo, 1815

104

CHAPTER VII

The Crimean War, 1854

. 118

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CHAPTER VIII
The Indian Mutiny, 1857-59

127

CHAPTER IX

FBONTIER Campaigns in l>n,iA. and NAxmi Wa«s m Africa

AND EgVPT, 1852-1898

'43

CHAPTER X

South Africa, 1881-1901

165

ILLUSTRATIONS

•SCOTLAND FOR EVER !' C,...c. or .,. S.o.s C.v,.. w„.».oo />„„,;„,

•tflir thifaiMing iy Lajj liuikr.
PRIVATE, ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS, .742
OFFICER, KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS, ,8..
PRIVATE, CAMERONIANS, ,8.5
THE BATTLE OF FONTENOV . Thh F.a»c„ ..„ ,„, a..,h, cov-

FRONTING EACH OTHER

OFFICER, ROYAL SCOTS GREYS, ,844

OFFICER, SCOTS GUARDS, 1830 .

OFFICER, ROYAL SCOTS, 1792 .

OFFICER, BLACK WATCH, 1835 .

OFFICER, SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS, 184,

PRIVATE, HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY, ,787

THE BATTLE OF ALEXANDRIA o. th. .,st D.v 0. March .8o,

.l/ler t.':tp^Mlr.s h V. T. ^, Lluthn-harg, j?..y.

OFFICER, CAMERON HIGHLANDERS, i8aS

OFFICER, GORDON HIGHLANDERS, 1S54 .

OFFICER, ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS, ,85. .

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THE BATTLE OF WATFRrnn ,-

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THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW

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EDITOR'S NOTE

Oct. thank, are due to the author, and publishers who have kindly permittol
us to reprint many of the tale, and extracts in this volume-to Messrs. Virtue
& Co. for the extracts from Her Maj,,,,/, Army, by Walter Hieh„rds, „„ p„ge^
10, 109. and 111-12; to Jlr. Neil Munro for TU Silier Drum ■ to Sir A T
Q.ullcr-Coueh and Mr. John Murray for Ticmderoga; to Me,srs. Macmillan f„r
the extracts from W. Forbes MitcheH's ReminiKencs of the Gre-U Mulinj
l\ Parkman's Monl-alm and Wolfe. Lonl Itol^rts's 1\ riyone Year, ,n India.
i.n,l G. L. Goffs Historical Record of the 91sl II ighla.ldcr., : t,. Messrs. Bhiekwo<Hl
fur the extracts from Kinglakc's Invasion of ,he Crimea, and to them and
Mr. J. D. Pinker ,or the extracts from G. W. Steevciis's Will, Kitchener lo
Khartum and Iron, Capetown to Ladyrmith ; lo the De Li More Press for the
extracts from Edward Almack's History of the S„d Dragoons ; to Me.s.srs. Ciissell
for the extracts from Archibald Forbes's Tlu Black Watch, an.l D. C. Parry's
V.C. and Britain s Roll of Glory; to Messrs. Chapman Si Hall for the extract
from Captain n. T. Iliggins's Record of the King's Own Borderers ; to .Messrs.
Wamc & Co. for the extracts from II. H. Clinton's Famous British Battles
and The War in the Peninsula; to Mr. T. F. G. Contes for the extracts from his
Life of Hector Macdonald ; to Sir. Eneas JIaekay for the extracts from J. Cron.b's
The Highland Brigade ; to Messrs. Constable f,.r the extract from Viscount
Wolsclcy's Story of a Soldier's Life; to Messrs. Hedderwick & Sons for the
extract from Trooper A. S. Orr's Scottish Yeomanry in South Africa ; to Mes.srs.
Smith Elder for the extracts from W. II. Fitehetfs Tales of the Itulian Mutiny,
and Sir A. Conan Doyle's Great Boer War ; to Mr. Charles G. D. Roberts for the
sonnet on Khartoum ; to .Mr. Theodore Gi«dridge Roberts and Dr. Wilfred
Campbell for the poems of Dargai Ridge and Scotland: The World Mother.

Mr. Archibald V rasden has bem so kind as to allow us he free use of
'The Thin Red Line' and 'Alma.' We have to thank Mrs. MaePhcrson of
Corrimony for generously allowing us to reproduce Mr. Skcoch Cumming's South
Af-ican picture; Sir WiUiam L.^ram, Bart., for Mr. Caton Woodvillc's picture

SCOTLAND FOR EVER

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CHAPTER 1

Seventeenth Century Wars

io.'ii-io'.ir

THE ROYAI. SCOTS

The Story oj the Lothian Regiment

Tbe lluynl Sfut.s takes pr- le of pljicc us the ulclt-st line legimcut hi liif llrilisii
Army. It is rumoureil to be a lhn.ul ili-scciidiiTit iif the- iKKlypiunl i.f Ihc iincioMl
kin(!i of Scotliiml, nnd, as some si.rt of Iriliulc to its iiiiiloiilikxl iililiqiiily, hin
received ihc quuint ni.kiinme of ' I'onlliis PiUle's ItiHlyuiianl.' Soolti.h t'nir>ps,
as renders of Huetttin Puncitid will reiiu-iiihcr, ucre to tic foiiiul li;;htiiit;
gallantly, as soldiers of fortune, under the Frei • li II nr mi the Middle Ajies. Ahuut
1682, Daniel Defoe's And.ow Nrvporl, In Tke Memnira of a Caviilur. . .,u:e >;pon
u regiment of Seots rn ir Leip-i.-, liuhtinR will, the S\^edi^h aniiv of (;M,tavils
Adolphns njrainst the l.crmans : " I met with ^rvl■ral (rentlenicnln the Kin;;'s
army,' I'.e wiys, ' who spoke En,'- h very well, be--ides that there were three
regiments of Seots in the an ly, the eolonels whereof 1 founil ivrrc extraorilinarily
esteemed by the kuiR, iis the Lord Uea, Colonel Lnnisikjl, unil Sir John llcpbnni!'
The companies known as " l!cpbnrn's Sei.ts Itrit-ade ' were eanipaij.oiiii|,' willi
the Swedes for nine years j then, in l(«:l, after the death of Gustavos Adolphns,
Hepburn went home to his own ecamlry. aiul presently raised fresh reeroils.
und transferred his nlleRiancc to France.' For some fortv-five years tliis rej;!-
ment remained in the service of the French. After Ihe liestoration it retnrned
from its wanderincs, and, under its new c<ilonel. the Earl of Dumbarton, entered
the British Army as 'Dumbarton's Recirnciit.' Later, it followed James II.
into exile for a while, and, eonmianih'd by Lord Dundee, fought ag.iin '' r France,
and ftKain afrainst tlie (Germans,

From these gallant, indomitable companies of soldier-adventurers the Royal
Scots regiment evolved. The title of the Uoyal Kegiment of FcK)t was con-
ferred upon the famous corps in recognition of its splendid share in the victory
over the Jliors at Tangier in 1083, when it captured a .MiKirish standard. In
1731 its title was changed to The 1st, or the Koyal Uegiment of Foot ; later it
became Tbe 1st, or tbe Uoyal Scots Uegiment of Fool ; then, in 1871, The 1st,
the RoyaJ Scots ,• and since 1881 it has been known as the Hoyal Seots (Li>thian
Regiment).

The colours of the Royal Scots are richly emblazoned with honours, and the
splendid valour of its men has been proved in many triumphant campaigns and

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battlefields, only tlie chief of which are included in the

Cunailn, 1757-60.

L(iiiisU>urg. 1738.

Ticonderoga, 1738.

(iuaduIou|)e, 1759.

Doniinicii, K(il,

Murliniquc, 1762.

Ilavannuh, 176'J.

Toulon, 1793.

Corsica, 1791.
Hvkkr. 1799.
EfjnnniL-i»p.Zoo, 1709.
E;,'ypt, 1801.
Alxmkir, 1801.
Miindora, 1801.
Alexandria. 1801.
St. I/icia, 1803.
Pciiitisul.t, 1809-14.
I'nrmma, 1809.
Mushing, 1809.
Guadaloupi'. 1810.
Busaco, 1810.
Siilamanca, 1812.
Vittoria. 1813.
St. Sebastian, 1813.

NV-thcrlands, 1814-15.
Hayonnc, 1814.
Niagara. 1814.
Ucrgrji-op-Zuom, 1814.
Qiiatn? Bras, 1815.
>VatcTloo, 1815.
India, 1817-19.
Nagporc. 1817.
Mahcidpore, 1817.
AssL'crgnur, 1819.
Burma, 1824-0.
Ava, 1826.
Canada, 1838-9.
Crimea, 1854-6.
Alma, 1854.
Inkerman, 1854.
Sevastopol, 1855.
China, 18G0.
Taku, 18G0.
Ptkin, 1860.

South Africa, 1890-1902.
Dordrecht, 1900.
Paardeplatz, 1900.
Mauchbcrg, 1900.

on many hard-fought
following list ; —

Macstricht, 1673.
^lorocco, 1680-3.
Tangier, 1683,
Scdgt-nioor, 1085.
Flandi-rs, 1689-07.
Walcourt, 1689.
Stcenkirk. 1G02.
Landcn, 1093.
Xamur, 1695.
(rt-many, 1701-11.
Vcnioo, 1702.
SrhtllcnbtTi;, I70t.
Blenheim, 1704.
Hainilies, 1706.
Oudcnarde, 170s.
VVyncndale, 170S.
Lisle, 1708.
Ghent, 1708.
Tournay, 1709.
Malplaquet, 1709.
Douav, 1710.
Flanders, 1743-9.
Fontcnoy, 1745.
Culloden, 1746.

HOW THE Highlanders used to charge

They advanced with rapi.l.ty, discharged their pieces wlicn v ;Miin musket length
of the enemy, then throwing them down, drew their swords, and holding a dirk
1 their left hand with their target, they darted with fury on the enemy, through
the smoke of their own fire. W hen within reach of the enemy's bayonets, bend-
ing their left knee they, by their attitude, covered their bodies withtheir targets,
and received the thrust of the bayonets, which they contrived to parr . while at
Uie same time they raised their sword-arm. and struck at their au er-aries
Having got once withm their bayonets, and into the ranks of the enemy the
soldiers had no longer any means of defending themselves, the fate of the bkttle
was decided m an instant, and the carnage followed ; the Highlanders bringing down
two men at a time, one with a dirk in the left hand, and another with a sword.

From The Book of.fi-ottuh Anecdole.

THE SCOTTISH GUARDS IN FRANCE
ByJ.H. Stocqueler

Even so far back as the twelfth century, Scotsmen protected the French kinRS,
and for hrce or fonr centlines later the ■ Scottish Guard ' was alwavs fan.ed li
Its devot„>n It continued to be a feature of the French Court, defendin.. the
sovereigns w,th great valour at Liige, at Prola, and elsewhere, and at IcnMh^me
over tol.nfrland,an<l under ,U leader. Hepburn, adopted the Hoyal cause in the
troubles which ultimately brought the head of Charles I. t(, the block. Loyal to
the last, the bcots then returned to France and resumed their position as part of

lY^MtJ^rihLi^^^ffl

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY WARS .i

the guard of Louis xiv. • The Scotch.' says Ilcniy Torrens, ' Imve ever held .1
high military reputation throughout Europe.' Frtjissart. who, with his usuai
aceumcy, describes the habits of their border troops, spealis of them ns bold,
haidy, and much inured to w.-.r in a national sense. They became individually
esteemed as soldiers by their early practice of leaving their native land to seek
service and fortune on the Continent of Europe. F;urn the dnvs of Louis xi. of
France to the Thirty Years' War (1G17 to 1648). the valour, coolness, and probity
of the Scottish s,>IUier continued to rise to higher and higher estimation in everx
land in which he took service ; and it is remarkiible that, in spite of the alleged
national acquisitiveness, he has. by his honourable conduct, entirelv escajied the
reproach (Poiiil d argent, point it Sui.Ke) which has attached ilse'lf to another
celebrated free nation whose mercenaries have cut each other's throats hereditarily
in every army in Europe for the last five centuries. Sir Waller Scott, who has
so admirably but satirically sketched, in the novels of Quenlin Durward and The
legend of Montrose, the character of his countrymen at these several periods, is.
I think, hardly just in his reflections ns to the result of this habit : ' The contempt
of commerce entertained by young men having sonic pretence to gentility, the
poverty of the country of Scotland, the national dispositicm to wandering and to
adventure, all conduced to lead the Scots abroiid into the military service of
coimtries that were at war with each other. They were distinguishid on the
Continent by their Imivery. hut in adopting the trade of uiercennrv soldiers they
necessarily injured their national character.' I nnist own I have yet In learn
that they did so ; for until it can be proved that they so conducted themselves
as to earn the light opinion of those they sci-ved. or fought against, it will be well
to let them continue in the estimation which foreigners to this dav nitneh to
soldiers of their nation.

i'nim r/,f llrUUt, Sjf'/in-.

SCOTTISH TROOPS IN 1633
By Daniel Defoe

I OBSERVED that these parties had always some foot with them, and yet if the horse
guiloped, or pushed on ever sfi forward, the foot was as forwart' as they, which
was an extraordinary advantage. Guslavus Adolphus, that king of soldiers.
was the first that ever I observed, who found the advantage of mixing small
bodies of musquetters among his horse, and had lie had such nimble strong fellows
as these, he could have proved them above all the rest of his mcTi. 'I'hese were
those they call Highlanders : they would run on foot with their arms, and all

their accoutrements, and keep very good order t iiiid yet keep pace with the

horses, let them go at what rate they would. ... I confess the soldiers made a
very uncouth figure, es|)eeially the Highlanders, the oddness and barharily of
their arms seemed to have in it something i-cmarkable. They were generally tall
swinging fellows ; their swords were extravagantly, and I think insignificanth
broad, and they carried great wooden targets, large enough to cover the upper
parts of their bodies. Their dress was as antique as the rest ; a cap on their
heads, called by them a bonnet, long hanging sleeves behind, a'ld their doublets,
breeches, and stockings of a stuff they call plaid, stri|)ed across red and yellow,
with sliort cloaks of the same. There were three or four thousand of these in
the Scots army, armed only with swords and targets ; and in their belts some of
them had a pistol, but no muskets at that time amongst them.

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• FRANCE AND SCOTLAND FOR EVER 1 '

GUARD AGAINST THE GEHMANS IN

HIE CHARGE OK THE SCOTTISH
ALSACE (1634)

By James Grant

We came in sight „r Bitche ni, the morning of the 25th Miirch, which «.is still ill
that year (1(134) ,V™ Fear s Day m Kngland ; though the governments of ScotJaud
and of France altered that festival t<. tlio 1st of January in 1599, durinc the reigna
ol James VI. and Charles IX. ''

We were with the advanced guard of cavalry, which consisted of the dragoons
of Marshal Brissae and the light horse of the Guard, two hundred Navarrese
chevaliers, the pride of Henry the Great ; and as the Marquis de Gordon, who
commanded the whole, .mderstood that a. strong force lay in Bitche, he halted
reconnoitred, anil bivoi jkcd us the night had set in and our main body had not
yet come up. ^

We slept overnight in our cloaks, under a chill dew, at the heads of our horses
which remained fully accoutred, unbittcd and ready for action at a moment's
notice— a fortunate precaution, for with the first pale streak of dawn, when
all were weary, cold, and shivering, I was ixnised bv the bracing cry of—

'Aux armesi i eheval ! ' ;ind to horse! blew all our trumpets, while the
lung roll ol the Scottish maieh,' beaten sharply on the drum, rang along the
far-cxtended lines of Hepburn, Lesly. and Ramsay. And now a bodv of Imperial
cavalry, the old-whiskered reitres, and German lanzkncchts of 'the Empire
accoutred in black iron and buff leather, with lance, arquebusc. and espadone
appeared in dark masses and in s,.lid squ;idron, about a thousand strunK, on the
narrow road that lay direct to Bitche.

The latter, a little town on Ihe Alsatian frontier, which gave the title of Count
to a gentleman of the house of Lorraine, stands upon a rock, and was deemed im-
pregnable. Beyond It rose the sombre masses of the Vosges mountains, around
the peaks of which the morning mist was wreathing and curling upwaid-golden
white, and purple in tlie rising sun ; and on the highest towers of the old and
dun-coloured citadel waved the white flag, bearing the black eagle of the Empire,
and the yellow banner with the three blue wings of Lorraine

As the artillery had not yet come up, the cavalry were to open a passage for
the infantry through these Imperialists ; and to us was reserved the honour of
attacking the enemy s cav.ilry it our comrades failed, for it has been a maxim
in war since the days of Julius Caisar to keep the best troops in reserve.

VVlth loud shouts of ' Navarre ! Navarre I ' the glittering light horse of the
Guard swept forward to the attack, in two heavv squadrons of fifty chevaliers
abreast with the royal standai-d, three fleur-de-lis or in a field aoire, advanced
above their bright helmets, their swords uplifted, and their while ostrich plumw
streaming behind them. There was a lowering of lances along the German line •
a flashing of pistols ; a fierce shock, and rolling of men and horses upon the green
turf or dusty road! and. with a shout of rage and defiance, the chevaliers of
XMavarre recoilea before the enemy, leaving thirty of their number dead or writh-
ing on the ground, while the heavy dragoons of Brissae, led by Roger de Lacv
the Rallant Due de Bellegarde, advanced by double troops in dense order from
a trot to full speed, and with the olil rri dr guerre—

' Montjoie and St. Denis for France I ' us all their brandished sword-blades
ILished agamst the mommg sun.

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY WARS s

A dreadful punflict took place, fur Urissac's dra^fuons were heavy men, accus-
tomed to fi<iht on tout or on horseback ; mid in the n\&\6c we beheld with fierce
impatience how liclmets were clovt-n, butt euuts pierced and hhred, while heads
and weapons, men, standards, and horses swayed nnd went down into that armed
and Uving sen which strug^'lcd in the mountain ^{irgc — went down to rise no
more I

Bellegarde wus wimnded by a splendidly accoutred young Imperial colonel,
who wore a cout of steel lined with scarlet velvet, with crimson hose, a black
plume in his helmet, and the eagle on his breast ; and who, throughout this
conflict on which the morning sun shone with nnrlouded brilliance, was con-
spicuous alike by the glitter of his equipment and the rashness of his courage.
Yells, shrieks, groans, the clashing of .swords and the sharp ringing report of
pistols echoed between the hills. Men were crawling out from the press covered
with bruises, blood, and dust ; wounded horses were hopping about on three legs,
and others, in the throes of death, rolled madly from side to side, kicking furi-
tmsly all who came near them. Tills roused all our iirc ; and, with something
like a shout of fierce joy luul anger mingled, we saw the dark dragoons of Marshal
Brissac give way at lust before the solid German ranks.

* Now gentlemen, it is our /urn!' exclaimed the handsome young Marquis
— the heir of Huntly — as he brandished his sword, and his dark eyes flashed with
the fixe of his nature, while he spurred to the front with a giove in his helmet
— the gift of I^-idy Anne Campbell, of Argyle, whom he afterwards married.
* Montjoie and Saint Denis ! France — France and Scotland for ever I trot —
gallop — comrades — les G;.r(lcs Ecossnis, follow me — ClIAUGE ! '

Every lip was set ; every cheek was flushed ; every eye wus sparkling as I
gazed along the nmks of the chosen hundred cuirassiers, when the voice of our
leader and the shrill twang of the trumpet bade us move, and when the con-
tiigious artlour ran froni man to man and heart to heart along the Scottish line
— Scottish in name and blood, and heart and soul — second to none in pride of
race and chivalry.

On, on we progressed frcm ■ *:rot to a gallop, and the ranks grew denser,
holster to holster, and btwl to b-.ot, as the horses closed upon each other; and
like a stream of lightning, the hundred guardsmen poured forward in all their
bnlliant trappings, with uplifted swords and St. Andrew's cross waving on the
wind, .T^ Sir Archibald Douglas, of Heriotinuir, held it aloft in hi"! stirrup. On,
on we t, and though iht-y were eight to one, the dark ranks of the reitres and
Inncers .jdailed and wavered before us !

Headlong we n»de at them, and plunged into the vapour made by the smoke
of firearms mingled with the morning mist. This murky cloud seemed full of
helmeted heads, of gauntletcd hands, the bright points of levelled pikes, of
brandished swords and waving standards ; while the air was laden with cries,
tumultuous sounds, and the heavy odour of gunpowder.

Now — now we are within an arm's length of them-

There was a mighty shock as rearing horses and shrieking men went down
on all sides of us, but we burst right through the heart of the foe, breaking their
close array of horses' heads and cuirassed breasts ; the dead and the dying
marking our track as on right and left we hewed them down.

Raynold Cbeyne, Scott of Tushielaw, Dundrennan, and the Chevalier were
all fighting like the peers of Charlemagne, and each performed many acts of
heroism. The Master of St. Monanee, son of James Sandilands, Lord Aber-
crombie of Abercrombie, was struck on the breast by a shell, while riding next
to me. It was thrown from the citadel, and in exploding blew his jaw off, but,

SCOTLAND FOR EVER

and we never saw him any n"^c ^* * ''" """''' '"''"" " ^^P ™»""-

the^S,^.r.:za;,il^";;;;l'!^?i'r''''^rr^T"''™"«-''

oa earth or in upper air » rrc at warHr. I i'"'"' "''"" ^ """'' "''^"■"

blow on my hehnet rce^^ ed m^eLraL will ^JT" r"' ."1'' ?/■""'' ""^'"R
and I found myself thrust somewh.t out nfh '""!.""' "' '''If-preservation,

totheyou„geoLel_hei„"«Unfs^retvelverX^^^ V'f t" ''"''

for sonic time, and in whom I n^tT^ ■j..'' "''""■■ "''''"•' '''«"ve<l

Place de la Grivc of he CMteard"* l^^"'''''* T?' ^""'■'""' «<-q"'-""'"n<'e of the
at Sezannc-M™,e°JncurSe Prinze fv^ and latterly the abhi .,f the tavern

Foramoment,;^:on^:f-„^™r/J:^l3t;7'''^™

lr:-e-^-i^^-"--'^s«^--^^

in.;|rKKr^;^i^™ ^---Hc^of a .py, ^^ '• <-■

Bwonis into tte nX tin ,« Z„'7^- "'"?'" ^ ""'"y ""■" ''■'''"^™" ■"«
.eparuled. ' " ''" °''"™' '""""•■i'tcly, and perhaps furtunatelv.

BWori from his hand and Culut to slaJT. V'"u'"^ '"""l'"' "''"'^ ""^
his blade and dashedTXrt ahno^t .n' I \ . ">''' "'.""• ■"'"=■'! drove up
Imperialist was a flnishccl ™™d.m„ , . ''""' '*''''' •"■'"'=<'" ""="'• The

solved to force hkma^ ^tZllZ ''"T™* ,•>"" '"= ™'' "■'»■•>• ' ^<-
me, so pressing forS I struck the fort ,?„""' '""f » ™ «•« »ide opposed to
.hus succeeded in giv™ Aim a cut ™ th ■ K T'''^ /"""usly on his blade, and
to receive his swoS as it came foVwn^f "^^ *'"''''f ' "'"^ "''"'^ '"^'"^ '^-'■^
through the body, and w™" cd r„v'the ZZ^'rlf "iZ^f'' ' '"." *•'"'
my glove and pommel as he fell fnmi his s!,d-<i~ „„ l S' '''""^ P"'"'^'' ''^'■■"

Lorrainer, for the lime at leist ' '' *''™ "°'' "" ^^ "^ ■">• !«<'■•

his lordship's Jibs proved s" "7,sZ ^ ""^ """"^ """ ""^ '™8<= through
by tl'ri^^^fo^VaXrr^h'S^' '"^ ""'' "•"«' "^ '-™'™' '"»' »- •»">'
suc^ot' ard''i:o"d 'setlce" l"a^S!,'"'.d'"«''' ' ' *"""'' ''"'■■ '<" 'hat timelv

lle<l at full spied ffoadT.,„ «„H "'e enemy's envnlry was general, and the?

N.v.„se jfh— l;^ ?hr^— i^^s^f^i-rEf^- -

SEVENTEEN'TH CENTURY WARS r

capturing ut every step of the ivay, lliuugli tlie vuliant young I'rince uf
Vaudemont made ni less thiiii nine attempts to rnllv them and repulse us.

' Well, my Lonl Dundrennan,' said thi M;ir(piis,'iis they gulhiptd side liy side,
how felt you in your lirst cluuije tn-ihiy 1 '

' A glorious disrepird alike of death and fear ! ' was the proud n;ply • ' and I
am sure that such was the feeling of us all.'

The rout of so superior a body of horse was entirely attributed, by the Due de
Lavalette, to the skill and fury with which we advanced ; for eavalrj-, when
diarging, should always trot gently for about a hundred paces, and thereafter
mcreasc their speed until they attain a full ami furious gallo]), closing to the croup
when within twenty paces of the enemy j but siich was the celerity wil'i which
our hundred cuirassiers advanced, that we charged fully two thousand paces,
boot to boot, without breakuig; and it may fairly be admitted that when horse-
men have achieved this point of perfection thcv would ride through a stone
rampart— they are nt for anything.

The field, or rather the roadway, where this skirmish look place was strewed
with dead nm\ wounded. After the former were stripped and the baggage
plundered, one could get luiy article of attire for a twentieth part of its value :

A Parmese dagger, for a frane,

A velvet coat laced with gold, tor five francs.

A sword, a hat and feathers, for a pot of struh wine.

Our petatdiers blew up the barrier gates of Hitchc. which were feebly defended
by the town guard and a few old soldiers armed with partizans. The castle was
stormed by the light horse, who were dismounted fur that service ; and who, in
their anxiety to wipe out the disgrace of their late repulse, acted with great
cruelty, ' sparing,' as the JIarquis de Toneins told us, ' none but the ugly and

the poor.' We blew up the magazines, .spiked the gun
lire ; and as the old song sey*;.

and set the town on

• When chiirflics and Iiouses blazed all in a flame.
With a ln»-lit-m rii. away we all came ' '

Arthur Hlanr.

DUiMBARTON'S DRUMS

THE REGIMENTAL MARCH OF THE ROYAL SCOTS

Dt'MDAKTON's dninis beat Ixmiiy O,

When they mind me of my dear Johnny, O,

How happy nm I

AViien my stildier is by,
While he kisses and blesses liis Annie, O I
'Tis a soldier alone can dehglit me, O,
For his graceful looks do invite me, O ;

While guarded in his arms,

1 'II iCar no war's alarms,
N< ithcr dunf,'er nor death sliall e'er fright me, 0.

Jly love is a hnndsome laddie, O,
tJenfeel, but ne'er foppish nor gaudy, O,
Though commissions are dear,
Yet I 'II buy him one this year,
For he shall serve no longer a cadie, O,

"■GOTLAND FOR EVER

A soldier has lionour and bruvery O *
Unacquainted with rogues and their knavery, O

He minds no other thing

But the ladies or the King,
For every other care is liut s! ivery, O.

Then I 'II be the captain's iaily, O
FarcweJI all my friends and my daddy, O •

I 11 wait no more at home, '

But I 'II follow with the drum,
And whene'er thai beats I '11 be ready, O
Uumbarton's drums sound boiuiy, O
rhcy are sprightly like my dear Johnny, O •

How happy shall I be

When on my s.ildier's knee.
And he kisses :ind blesses his Annie, O I

►'rom rfc Tni-IMr Mi.dh,,,,, , c„Mr.li,.u „f„|,|
St'ots siinifH edttuil Ity Allaa lUmsay in 17:;4.

A LEADER OF THE ROYAL SCOTS
By John Mackay o] Ruckfield

to gratify i,is favourite p" , ty^ l^"^'^! "'f ""= l"^ " '" '''^ P°""
ensign m Uouglas's or Uuml .^t 7^ *' "' ""v,"''^*"''""''". ''^en appointed an
the I)rit,.sl, linf The r..inl " .s' """ "'rf "?"' ""'S™'^-'. <" '''■■st Foot of
the French king, in virtue of a tr™, r" tr'"'' '?' ^^ ''"'"'''"^ "'= Second to
and young MaefL'aJc^rpa^ni^litt^Fra',:"""^^ '"■■'"•^^" '"' '™ ^°^"^'"- ^

of jtii'ibojJushr^r::™ rir ^T? "t''"- """""■^^ '"^ «^-' """^

his death. In 10U9 he was e m.l w' , ^ m "'""""^ correspondence to the day of
the followin, ocx'asion; The fel;;i"i'f,^""^^°'■'''^Ve"ctiann^
of the Island of Candia for fivl 1 ' , '"'.""« "'Joycd quiet possession

attacked by the Tu k fn the mi? ""f ""r'' " "■"■' "■"'^' a.d. 1643, suddenly
sanguinaryeon est wer^nl V « f,- P"'^?""'' P™"^"-' ""i- ""^ » '""g and

ful armauK-nt to hSrastt r m it tr- "" "'""I /°u"'^ '='^- ='"* " P"""'
Admirnl of France siv„avo T "'%=°'n';'^"'l °f the Uuke of Beaufort,
volunt.ere,! thdr Service o,t,.e?v^'?""- ^^% "°"" "^ "'= ^"^'"'^ n°l"hty
a hundred reduced onieer" a c^'^^'i""'"'- ^''^l^T '«^'^<""P''"i<=J ^y a corps of
glory of humbling the Ott;.,u n nolr *t1" ■"''"^^>7^P"''>"^'^. a"J ^here the
the island, on the^Oth Ju c ml on thV J^ T^ "'■""■''■'" Candia, the capital of
besiegers, but were repuYsed w th 1, i h T * ^^^^^^^^^^^
One of the reduced „IIieers-.M ' u "''""■•■''' """"• ''^'"''''■' •>«"<? ^l"'"-

this and other bCy "ag nTemrSuJi^'H '? ^"■''"•' J^'^g-^'-ed hi.'nself in
upon the island, tha he'rSeS fmm h? '" n° "'°""'.%">e French remained
due aeknowledgmen* of Is services Tie d?n r", ""'.;'?' "' S^^-t value, as a
tioned, followed in 160s Iv tharof his tl , . If '""'"• "^ "''"''"'y '»™-
soldier the succession of e f "nily esta J »Sh ^^ ''"^' ?""'^ '" ™' >"""'«
to revisit after .t became h.s ti p^^X^t "^^^ LTm"tX"In

mmm

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY WARS q

Dumbarton's regiment, which was still in the s.-tvice of France, and employed
in the unprincipled expedition of Louis against the United Provinces.

The horrors of this short but desolating campaign, of which Mackay wqs thui
a spectator, if not an actor, made such a deep impression on his mind, as led him
to entertain serious thoughts cif retiring from the service of both sovereigns, and
returning to his native counti /. While deliberating on this measure, Providence
so ordered events as to remove from his mind all doubts with respect to the
course he ought to follow. His rtgimcnt, fonning part of that division of the
army which, under the orders of Turenne, took the town of Bonimel, in Gutlder-
land, it was his lot to be billeted on the house of a respectable widow lady, whose
husband, the Chevalier Arnold de Bie, hod been burgomaster of the town. Here
the grave and serious deportment of Captain Mackay, so different from that of
most of his brother ofilccrs, whether French or English, attracted the notice of
Madame de Bie and her family, and gained their esteem. She had several
daughters, of whom the three youngest, being unmarried, were sent, on the first
rumour of invasion, to Dort as a place of safety, and out of the way of the French
cavaliers. Louis having, however, issued a proclamation ordering all who had
fled from their habitations to return forthwith, under severe penalties, Madame
de Bie recalled her daughters from Dort, as her family now enjoyed the protection
of a respectable Scottish officer, their inmate. Mackay hfid by this time become
so domesticated in the family as to participate in all their recreations : with
Madame de Bie he played her favourite game of chess, and read with her daughters.
Under such circumstances it was not Ukely that the young ladies and their i)ro-
tector should long remain indifferent to each other ; and in fact Clara, the eldest
unmarried daughter, soon made an impression on his heart. After some furtl-.er
acquaintance he made his proposal in form. Madame de Bie, unwilling to give
her daughter to a man who served the enemy of her country, at first opposed his
addresses, but yielded when she found he was inclined to resign his present
service and enter that of the republic. Such a change, from one service to the
other, was at that time unusual, and attended with difficulties ; but these being
at length overcome, Mackay was transferred, with his rank of captain, from
Dumbarton's regiment to the Scottish Brigade, in the service of the States-
General. The only obstacle in the way of his marriage being thus happily re-
moved, he was speedily united to Clara de Bie, the object of his affection, whose
country he appears from this date to have adopti'd ns his own.

From /-(/> nf Lieuleniiitt-flem'fiil Iliiyh Mmkiiii of !knvrii.

THE C.4MER0NIANS OR 26TH REGIMENT

The Convention of States, after the abdication of James vii., voted to raise some
regular forces, whereof two battalions of the Cameronians were formed into a
regiment, which afterwards, to their great honour, distinguished themselves upon
several occasions, particularly at Dunkeld, where they stood the shock of a
superiornumber of that Highland army which, but a few days before, beat nearly
four thousand English and Dutch forces, under the command of General Mackay.
* Lest the reader should suspect me (says the writer of this) of partiality in favour
<T these brave people, it will not be impertinency to give such a part of their
character as may enable them to account for their surmounting the utmost
difBculties and even seeming impossibilities.

' The Cameronians are strictly religious, and ever act upon that principle ;
making the Mar a part of their religion, and converting state policy into points of

SCOTLAND FOR EVER

conicienc ■. Thty Dghl aa thfy pray, and pray a. thry Hght, making tvery battle
> new rx,.rc,s« of the.r faith, and btli.v. that in inch a ca.e they aVe, a. it w"e
under th, banner of Christ ; if they fall in battle, they die in their ealling, ai
martyrs lo the good cause, and believe that in thus .bedding their blood thry
flnuh I., work of their salvation. From such maxims and articles of faith the
v.ameron,n,>. may be sli-in, never conquered. Great numbers of them have lost
their lives, hut few or none ever yielded. On the contrarv, whenever they believe
their duty or religion calls them to it, they are alwnyi unanimous and ready,
with un.launtcd spirits, and great vivacity of mind, to encounter hardships,
attempt great enterprises despise danger, and bravely rush on to death or victory.
A foreign war immediately ensuing on King William's accession to the crown,
most part of the forces in Scotland were ordered to Flanders, whereof the
tameronmn regiment wns a pnrt.'

I'mni Thr llooli'i/'Senlih/i ,lnm/.7.'.
IX

THE FIRST FIGHT OF THE CAMERONIANS
By W. Richards

whonfl'l' '■"' ''°'Tl '?■ 'T '?"" ■""""«'' ""'« ''""''^ "f ^"^™ Covenanters
whom relgious predilection, had attracted to the cause of Wihinm and Mary.

of^e l,'^//, " rf' "" "^"^'l' ^"«"'- ""'" ^'PP^ently only eli-hleen yeaJs
of age, and the conditions on which the men enlisted were curiously (Ikinicteristic

^, W s'uhrHir."'^'"'- ?" ""'''" "'^ '° ^ ""■'■ •""" ' ■" '" "'"science thev
could submit to ; a captain was appointed to the regiment, and an ' elder ' to
eachcompany ; in each man's haversick was to be found a Bible

was fnr"i„nf .hr?h^'"""r ™' "' P""''^''' "*'*'''• "•■"' "'"■• K""""' ■''f'-"
Th.^ » . T* . "■" "' r"'',™' ^'"'^- ■r'"^y "■"« '"<^'ve hundred, whilst

rie«n.™f • 7'\ "'""l^"-"" f™^ '™es as many ; for four hours they fought
wPZ^ M,'" f "1..°",'' '.!"'."''•• ^y """ ""<' market-place ; when ammunitL
fell short they tore the lead from the roofs and converted it into slugs. At last
^1t """"'""« '"'^ ^"'^ " '■ declaring that they ■ could flght men but not devils,'
and the Can.eronians remained victors, having killed three hundred of the enemy
and wounded a vast number, while their own loss was under fifty. A Jacobite
Se enln^? Per.od, quoted by Grant in his account of the siege, is higher praise tlum
the compliments of troops of friends. Addressing the Camcronians, the poet says :

' For murders too, as snldiers true,
Von were ajvarictil well, boys ;
Tor yoii fi.ii^lit like devils, your only riialx.
When yun were (it Dnnkeld, hoys.'

I'l-om Iffr .Viii^ntg't A rmi/.
X C,v (hrniiMnioii of JilnMn. Virtue 4 Co., Londoa.

THE ISLAND OF THE SCOTS

A BALLAD OF THE SCOTS REGIMENT THAT FOUGHT WITH THE FRENCH
AGAINST THE GERMANS IN 1 697

By William Edmondstotwe Aytmm

'^°Th?'''r ^"'"',''"8 '•"!' "'"' '■'■■'■ tor not alone the river's sweep
'Nowifth. 'f'"'nT^ , Might make a brave man quail:

Now ,s there one of all the h..4 The foe arc on the farther side,
W .11 dare to venture o'er .' Their shot comes fast as hail.

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY WARS

God help ua, ir the tnklclle i'^lc
We miiy not hope tt> win !

Now, is there any uf the host
Will dure to veitturt' in t

* The forcl is deep, the bunks ore steep,

The island -Nhore lies wide :
Nur man nor horse could stem its force

Or reach the farther side.
See there I iiiitidst the willow boughs

The serried Iwiyonets gleam ;
Tliey 've flung their bridge — they 've
won the isle ;

The foe have cnjssed the stream I
Their volley fltshes sharp and strong —

By all the saints, I trow,
There never yet was s<)ldier born

Could force that passage new I '

So spoke the bold Freneh Marcschal

With him who led the van,
Wliilst rough ami red before their v'ew

The turbid river run.
Nor bridge, nor boat had they to cross

The wild and swollen Uhine,
And thundering on the other bank

Far stretched the German line.
Hard by there stood a swarthy man

Was leaning on his swoni,
And a saddened smile lit up his face

As he heard the Captain's word.

* X 've seen a %vilder stream ere now

Than that which rushes there ;
I *ve stemmed a heavier torrent yet

And never thought to dare.
If German steel be sharp and keen,

Is ours not strong and true ?
There may be danger in the deed.

But there is honour too.*

And J have seen ye in the fight

Do ull that mortal may :
If honour is the Ixxm ye svck

It may b« won this d:iy.
The prize is in the middle isle.

There lies the venturous way :
The armies twain are on the plain,

The daring deed to sec —
Now ask thy gallant compiny

If they will follow tl-ce ? '

Right gladsonte looked the Captain then.

Aiid nothing did he say.
But he turned him to his little l>and —

Oh few, I ween, were they I
The relics of the bravest force

Tliat ever fought in .".-ay.
No one of all the conipany

But bt)re a gentle name.
Not one whose fathers had not stood

In Scotland's fields of fame.
All they had marched with great Dundee

To where he fought and fell.
And in the deadly battle-stril'e

Had venged their leader well ;
And they had bent their knee to earth

When every eye was dim.
And o'er their hero's b\iried corpse

They sang the funeral hymn ;
And they had trod the I'ass once more.

And stooped on cither side
To pluck the heather from the spot

Where he had dropped und died ;
And they had bound it nc.Kt their hearts,

And ta'en a last farewell
Of Scottish earth and Scntti*ih sky.

Where Scotland's glory fell.
Then went they forth to foreign lands

Like bent and broken men,
Who leave their dearest hope behind,

And may not turn again I

The old lord in his saddle turned,

And hastily he said —
' Hath bold Duguesclin's fiery heart

Awakened from the dead ?
Thou art the leader of the Scots —

Now well and sure I know.
That gentle blood in dangerous hour

Ne'er yet ran cold nor slow,

' The stream,' he said, ' is broad and deep.

And stubborn is the foe —
Yon island-strength is guarded well —

Say, brothers, will ye go ?
From home and kin for many a year

Our steps have wandered wide.
And never may our bones be laid

Our fathers' graves beside.

S;,uten hive we to lament,
No wive, to wail our foil J

The traitor • and the ipoiler'. hand
llnvc reft our h«.rthVof„ll.

lint we hove heart,, and we hove amit,
A. tlnmg to will and dare

\v,i" ""J ""''"" •»""" ""»
"ithin the northern air.

l..me b«,iher,lletmenonie..pel|

siioll muse your louls acain.
And .«nd the old bl,«d bounding f«

t„M ^",?^u'"'>'' ""'' ••""«• -nd vein I

tall bock the day, of bygone years-

Ue young and strong once more ;

i'od''" ""■"" "" ""•'' ""<

1, one we Ve crossed before.
R.»e,^hdl^„„d glcnl rise. crag. „d

Rise up on either bond—
Agoui upon the Corry's bonks

On Scottish soil we stand I
Again I sec the tartans wave
Agiiin the ti-umpets ring :
Again I hear our leader's call-
Upon them, for the King I "
Mnyed wc behind that glorious day

For roaring flood or linn ?
The soul of Graeme is with us still-
Now, brothers, will ye in f '

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Yet onwards pushed the Cavalier,

AJl stem and undismayed.
With thouwnd arm(d foe, before

And none behind to aW.

So strong the torrent swept,
^ *"j~ «•»' '">>« and living wall,

1 lieir dangerous footing kept.
1 hen rose a warning cry behind,
• Ti, '">''"" ■'•""' before :
ThelT"' '" """'K-'he way i. long-
They II never reach the Jiore I
See, see I they stagger in the midst,
Ihey waver in their line I
"L7 ^i'"^"'" I break their ranks.
And whehn them in the Rhine I '

i hey grasped each other's hand,

Thfc*u '"i".""' ""8^ flood,
that bold and dauntless band.

HiKh flew the spray above their heads
Yet onward still they bore,

Malst^cheer, and shout, and answering

And shot and cannon roar
-Now by the Holy Cross I swear.
Since earth and sea began
"as never such a daring deed
l-.ssaycd by mortal man I '

Tluck blew the snioke across the stream.

And faster flashed the flame . •
The water plashed in hissing jets

As ball and bullet came.

Have you seen the bill trees swaying

A J .!" "" ''''"'' '" I'i|''"(! shrill,

Aijd the whirlwind riel, h, fury

Down the gorge, of the hill J

Mnving with the tempest's shock •
tieavmg firmly to the rock ?
\',",T ""^ Scottish warriors
TU l '.u'" ""'" "K"'""' ">e river ;
Though the water flashed areund then,.

Though ..„ .hot fle,v .hn4 and deadly
"oi a . .„ relaxed his hold :

\V thTh^^'^J'".'''* ""d "^'"ing

nn. .i ""«'">' ""oughts of old.

One word was spoke among them,
. J^d 'hrough the ranks it spread-

W ""Iwl™/ ''""' Claverhouse I '

Was all the Captain said.
Then, sternly bending forwaid,
TI ",«y »'™8gl«l on awhile.
Until they cleared the heavy stream.

They rushed towaids the isle.

10
The German heart is strong and true,
i-i. A *'"™=n ""TO is strong j
1 he German foot goes seldom back

HTiere armM foemen throng.
Unt never had they faced in field

So stern a charge before,

"^,T'", ^ ""'y '•'>*■ ">' sweep
f 1 Scotland's broad claymore.

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY WARS

Not flerccr poun thi; avalanche

Adown the itecp incline,
That riif ■: o'er the (urcnt-springi

or lou^ii and rapid Hhine—
Scarce iwifter shoots the bolt Irom
heaven

Than came the Scottish band,
Right up against the guarded trench,

And o'er it, sword in hand.
In vain their leaden forwanl press —

They meet the deadly brand I
O lonely island of the Rhine,

Where seed was never sown,
What harvest loy upon thy sands,

By those strong reapers thrown 1
What saw the winter moon that night.

As, struggling through the rain.
She poured a wan and fitful light

On marsh, and stream, and plain ?
A dreary spot with corpses strewn.

And bayonets glistening round ;
A broken bridge, a stranded bout,

A bare and battered mound ;
And one huge watch-fire's kindled pile.

That sent its quivering glare
To tell the leaders of the hosts

The conquering Scots were there.

And did they twine the laurel-wreath

For those who fought so well t
And did they honour those who lived.

And weep for those who fell ?
What meed of thanks was given to
them
Let aged a'„.als tell.
Why should they twine the laurcl-
WTeath, —
Why crown the cup with wine ?
It was not Frenchmen's blood tliat
flowed
So freely on the Rhine—

A stranger tund of beggared men

Had done the venturous dceil ;
The ghiry wos to France alone.

The danger was their meed.
And what cured they for idle thanks

From foreign prince and peer ?
What virtue had such honeyetl wo^U

The exiles' hearts to cheer 1
What mattered it that men should
vnunt

And loud and fondly swear,
That higher feat of chivalry

Was never wrought elsewhere 1
They bore within their brcnslH the grief

That fame can never heul —
rhe deep, unutterable woe

Which none save exiles feel.
Their hearts were yearning for the land

They ne'er might see again —
For Se4itland's high and hcuthered
hills.

For mountain, loch, and glcn —
For those who hoply lay at rest

Beyond the distant sen,
Bereath the green and daisied turf

Where they would gladly be !

VI
Long years wei,' by. The lonely isle

In Rhine's impetuous flood
Has ta'en another name from those

Who Imught it with their blood :
And though the legend does not live.

For legends lightly die.
The peasant, as he sees the stream

In winter rolling by.
And foaming o'er its channel-bed

Between him and the spot
Won by the worriors of the sword.
Still calls that deep and dangerous ford

The passage of the Scot.

CHAPTER II

Campaigns in Flanders and Germany

1091-1745
I

THE SCOTS GUARDS
The Story of the Regiment

l^^'^^T^:,^i:^^-^^<'<f. When it ™. organised as
S n? 't "«..med the title of thfsM plJ ? Ji""'' '" ''^<^ »""* Army
Sudan i,nd South Africa it h'l, mn^ »'l the Napoleonic wars, in the Crimea th^

Ht^^^hi^-'ii^^^^-^'SS?"^^

The Scots Guards answers to the h„™.?f l" "''' ""' >''' '"■• '«lli"g-
Wcataio^ne of campaign. ,„'\^;?,'-;S
Flanders. insn.Q«:

FlandL-rs, 1689-95,
Walcourt, 1680.
B"ync, 1690.
J^undcn, 16y;f.
Numur. 1695.
Spain, 1709-13.
Saragnssa, 1710.
Flanders, 17-12-8.
Dettingcn, 1743.
Kontrnoy, 1745.
Val. 1747.
Clurbourg, 1758.
Germany, 1759-62.
Dcnkcni, 1761.
^Vilhelmstalil, 17C2
America, 1776-88.
Brooklyn, 1776.
Brandywiiic, 1777.
Guildford, 1781.

Valenciennes, I793

Flanders, 1793-5.

Lincellcs, 1793.

C'rabbcndam, 1709

Btrgcn, 1799.
F^nnont-op-Zec, 1799
Aboukir, 1801.
Fff}-pt, 1801.
Alexandria, 1801.
Marabout, 1801.
Copenhagen, 1807.
Peninsula, 1809-14,
Flushing, 1800.
Duuro, 1809,
Talavera, 1809.
Barosaa, 1811.
Badajos, 1812.
Burgos, 1812.
Oudad Hodrigo, 18ia.

St. Sebastian, 1813.
Netheriands, 1814-15,
Bayonnc, 1814.
Bergen-op-Zoom, 1814.
yuatre Bras, 1815.
Haterloo, 1815.
Portugal, 1826-8.
Crimea, 1854-6.
Alma, 1834.
Inkerman, 1854.
Fgypt, 1882.
Tel-el-Kebir. 1882
Suakim, 1885.
South Africa, 1899-1902
Belmont. 1899.
Modder River, IS99.
MagcKfontein, I899!
Thabanehu, 1900
Diamond Hiil, 1900.

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THE SECOND DRAGOONS
The Story of the Royal Scots Greys

^^u. only regiment of Scottish cavalry, and the oldest regiment of dragoons in the
Bi.liEh A)TT!v, the Scots Greys were raised in Scotland in 1078, and in their earlier
vean were i..i" wn successively as the Royal negiment of Scots Dragoons, I lie Grey
Oragoons, i ,d the Scots Regiment of White Horses. They became the Royal
Uegiment i North British Dragoons in 1787; then the 2nd, or Royal North
■4- 'tisi: Dr.goons ; then the 2nd Royal North British Dragoons (Scots Greys) j
and, since 1877, the 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys). Tlie distinctive head-
dress of the Scots Greys is the grenadier bearskin. This was conferred upon them
in honour of their routing and capturing the standard of the Rcgiment-du-Roi at
the battle of Ramilies, and is a style of Iread-drcss worn by no other cavalry regi-
ment in the British Army. Nor is there any other regiment of horse that has won
greater glory on the field, or made its name such a symbol of all that is chivalrous
and daring and gallant in the romance of war. It "has lived magnificently up to
the proud motto of ' Second to None,' which it has worn for two hundred years.

Like every other regiment it has its nicknames, and is spoken of familiarly as
' The Bubbly Jocks ' or as ' The Bird Catchers '—the latter conmmnorating its
capture of the Eagle of a French regiment at Waterloo.

Among the cliicf campaigns and battles of the Scots Greys arc Ihc fallowing :—

Flanders, 1091-7. Dittingin. 171.1. Toiirn.iy, 1791.

Gi-rmany, 1702-13. Koiitenov, 1713. ^Valcrkio, 1815.

Blc-nheira, 1701. I!,.ueoux, 1716. Netherlands, 1813.

Ramilies, 1700. Uemianv, 1758-03. Balaclava, 1851.

Oudenardt 1708. Mindtn, 173!). Inkeroian, 1831.

Malplncjuet, 1709. Warbourg, 1700. Tchcmaya, 1853.

Boucham, 1711. Williclmstahl. 17C2. Sevastopol, 1835

Flanders, 1742-8, Fl.iiulcrs, 1793-5. South Afrira, 1S99-1002.

THE ROYAL SCOTS AT THE BATTLE OF STEENKIRK
By Richard Cannon

Aftee several changes of position. King William resolved to attack the French
army commanded by Marslial Luxembourg, at iis camp near Stecnkirk. On the
evening of the 28rd of Jidy (O.S.), the first battalion of the Roval Regiment, com-
manded by Sir Robert Douglas, the second battalion of the 1st Foot Guards, with
the regiments of Fitzpatrick and O'Ffan-el, and two battalions of Danes, were
ordered forward to commence the attack on the French armv, and were accom-
panied by a detachment from each battalion of Brigadier-General Churchill's
brigade, with hatchets and spades to make a passage through the woody grounds
between the two armies. Between ten and eleven o'clock on the following morning
these troops arrived in front of the French camp, and took post in a thick wood,
beyond which there was a small valley intersected with hedges lined with French
infantry, and on the opposite side of the valley appeared the French camp. About
eleven o'clock two batteries opened their fire upon the enemy ; and when the main
body of the army had arrived within a mile of the wood, "the leading regiments
issued from amongst the trees and commenced the attack. ' Certainly never was
a more dreadful and at the same time bolder firing heard, which for the space of

16 SCOTLAND FOR EVER

two hours seemed to be a continued thunder. Our vanguard behaved in the
engagement to such wonder and admiration, tliat though they received the charge
of several battaUons of the enemy, one after another, yet they made them retreat
almost to their very camp.' Amongst the foremost in this action was seen the
brave Sir Robert Douglas, at the head of the first battalion of the Royal Regiment,
emulating the noblest actions recorded in the annals of war. Having led his
battalion against the troops behind the first hedse, he soon cleared it of French
combatants, and drove one of the enemy's battalions from the field in conruslon.
A second hedge was attacked and carried by the gallant Scots in a few moments ;
and a third was assaulted, — the French stood their ground, — the combatants fought
muzzle to muzzle, — and again the Royals proved vjrtorious, and the third hedge
was won. The toil of conflict did not cool the ardour of the veteran Scots ; but
forward they rushed with a loud huzza, and attacked the troops which lined the
fourth hedge. Here the fighting was severe ; but eventually the Royals over-
threw a fourth French battalion, and drove a crowd of combatants from their
cannon. In this conflict the first battalion lost one of its three colours. Sir
Robert Douglas, seeing the colour on the other side of the hedge, leaped through a
gap, slew the French oificer who bore the colour, and cast it over the hedge to his
own men ; but this act of gallantry cost him his life, a French marksman having
shot him dead on the spot while in the act of repassing the hedge. ' Thus the
Scots commander improved upon the Roman general ; for the brave Posthumius
cast his standard in the middle of the enemy for his soldiers to retrieve ; but
Douglas retrieved his from the middle of the enemy without any assistance, and
cast it back to his soldiers to retain.' While the leading regiments were thus
carrying all before them, the main body of the army were a mile in the rear, and
could not be brought up in time to sustain the corps in advance : the Royals, and
other regiments of th( idvanee guard, after displaying a degree of constancy and
valour seldom equalled, were forced to retire ; and eventually the army retreated
to its camp.

From UiKtoriciit llfcorJ nf (!,■■ U/ or Ror/'il llfyruent of Foot.

THE CAMERONIANS AT BLENHEIM

By T. Carter

When all the preparations were completed throughout the line, the Duke gave
orders for a general attack, which began on the left about a quarter before one.
Major-General Wilks, with five English battalions and four of Hessians, made the
first onset, and was supported by eleven battalions and fifteen squadrons.
Hrigadier-Gcneral Row, who charged with the greatest intrepidity, led on the
British troops to the assault of the village of Blenheim. They advanced to the
very muzzles of the enemy's muskets, and being exposed to a superior fire, and
unable to break through the barricades, they were forced to retire, leaving nearly
one-third of their men either killed or severely wounded. In this retreat they were
pursued by thirteen squadrons of the French gen d'armcrie, and would have been
entirely cut to pieces had not the Hessian infantry stopped the charge by a heavy
and well-sustained fire. The French, repulsed and forcod to fly in their turn, were
chased by five squadrons of English horse, and by this time had passed the rivulet j
these being somewliat disordered by their success, whilst regaining their ranks,
were vigorously charged by a fresh and greatly superior body of the enemy's
horse, and were obliged precipitately to repass the stream. Here the Hessians

CAMPAIGNS IN FLANDERS AND GERMANY 17

on the left, but without decsjve ^"<^«f ' ^"^ '^""f.^J^"^^^^^^ so that it

times to the charge with equal vigour, they were st. 1 '^P"'»^ ^jjj^i ' j^e whole

the «newed attacks of the mfantry which su^mdcd the v^^^^^^

capitulated about eight m the evening. They Uddo^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^

ing their colours and ^tandarch, -urrcndercd t^^^

JS^^li^^'^CtlfS/r^ha^'rS^^r^^

the day. ^.^^^^^^ UhWml llrcoH o/ll" I'lmmman llrsniiinl.

THE SCOTS GREYS AT RAMILLIES
By Edward Almack

OS May 2., ITOa, a <'etueh,„e„t of the Greys aiidsev.ra. ^'XrllS
were ovdered to march towards Mo"t/t A„drt, a"^^^ ^^^ ^ ^^^^

by the enemy '".^'ght =ol™-- ^.^^^jSorp whe/ihrougl. the misty dawn
on until they gamed the heights '«" '"™"i'/ .. ,„ins „t St. Andrf, and
they espied a few of the ^■"y ^^^^I^'L^ : S4,ed '^ p"«tion at Ramillies.
sooh the fog lifting, the F'^^"* army was di^^vercu p ^ ^^^

Advancing into the plains "f Tandnndu 1, the "'^^^ P JP;';^, churchiU's and
Queen's Horse, the Greys, and the Royal Irish ""S""" ^ p , „„ the

^'?T.\'Vu^rruVf8o\";j'Vh\":Lci%™eAnie:tg:n;heavy

For some time the troops on the h"8M» "" the rij^ht »c e om^^ ^ ^^

Marlborough, seeing that an "tt"* "f ^,^ J,' Gardes du Corps, and others.
the French Household regimens Gens dArmtsGan^^^^^ Churchill's and M..>
was not succeeding, ordered his "B''t"'"?f,"°™battalions of French infantry,
daunt'srcgiments descended A^* »";^^f>^ \'^J^''^e,e ^^^^^^^^^ captured. At the
drove them into a morass, where H™^' "' *^X j^ ^,> u,„goons galloped thltmgh
same time the Q'.een's Horse, the G^JS and the ^^^" ^^fking the enemy's left.

the morass, crossed the high 8'°""'',^^^:"^ ''•.,'^^„/„nnS„?ry to pieces. The
routed the F^f^-^h cavalry and cut sevm^battahonot m y^^P^^ .^^^^^^

Greys charged into the ^'"f 8^ "'^^H'^.tw encountered the famous French
i^;S::r;:^k'rratrjr;'S r/aXered up its colours and arms
to the victorious dragoons. ^.^^^^ ^.^^^ ^.^^^^^^^ ^^,,, j,„„,, i„„g„m.

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THE ROMANCE OF MOTHER ROSS

«on,an. Christian D.vlr r jiotJlrH ''' 'T' '"^™""' "'"»' '« Riven of a

JeH^Zr^r - --;^ -i- I«^ Wo,... ,x, „,Hont h„ .now.
h.yv,fe which never reaehed l.cr At 1 st vh i "S'ment, and ,vr„te Jetters to

Tn a .l^irmish before ihe battle of Sen"^;,"''''"^ "' ''"' "' Christopher WeUh

-'^t^^^-^s^^^r^ " ^^"^^ "-' '" '" "»' '^

«rter the Peace of RyS.'Sn"' hrrtn^^JalVf"^ ""''■ """ ">"''"-" » ""*"
Ho land and re-enli.ted i„ the Greys Shlf „?I,rV«''"'' ^'"= "'='" buck to
am' m most of the engagements of' the can n J""" '„''', N'i'wegen, Venloo, Bonn,
she received a ball in the hip, chicle .usr^n P ' "' """ ''"'"'^ of Donauwerth
The ball was never extracts, bu cS " 'r'''"''"^ retirement into hospiSi
sharemthespuilsafterBlenhein Whl' f'"" ■*''" "8"'" "'"'" ""« i" t,r.,e to
^ken ,„ the battle, sheaRai.Ksv her Sa„dTff.r"' "'"«''"'■'' f" •-"'<^ PrisoneS
She lost no t,me in revealing her iden Uv to ht,n ^'f''''™''"'' "thirteen vears.
e^nip hfe hat she extracted u prom e fr™,, w , 1 »° enamoured was she of

but she still continued to live in camn »„d ? '^""''^ '° >« " trooper,

aeknmv edged wife. L. 1709 Iticharf "veNh ,v.,fl.''n"!f''';'?J ''" ''"»'''""' as his
herself found his body, and her lamSt,,tii '""'^'' "' *I"'Pl"quet. Clu-istian

open commiseration of a Cant in Rn " I ' """ ^ extravagant as to excite the

of Mother Ross, by whiehXw^" tr;tr'"hVl'\"l1.^''^/"'"='^ 'h^
•ns so that for a whole week she refused to tnn/hf "',''"<'"-"• Although griev-
a grenadier, within three months In ir,^ t * '°°^; ''■e married Hugh Jones
Venant. I„ 1712 ,he returned to En„llnd "'' ""' ''"■''' "' ">» siege of SaT
awarded a life pension of a Wll ng a 1" ' C "« ''""1 '" «"=^" ^""e, and

marrirfasoldier named DaviesStfediZnJulv7l7?r''^^

her body was interred among the nensiolr^'i-P?' ''""'• ""■e-' own request,

three grand volleys were fired fver her gmve '" ''''" '"'O'ing-ground? and

Fr,.,„ Tl.r lli.i„,y „r „„ j;,,,„„, „
VII "

Sybourg They were posted near the c"ntre AIT"'',,""/" Brigadier-Genera!
ever.they were ordered to filet.^^a;'SK^eir°?r.t^^^^^^^

CAMPAIGNS IN FLANDERS AND GERMANY 19

had the brigade emerged from among the trees before it encountered a line of
French cavalry ; these squadrons were, however, soon dispersed, but tney were
instantly succeeded by a new line of champions, consistinR of a number of squadrons
of the French Household cavalry, clad in armour, and advancing in llrm array.
. . . The Greys and Irish Dragoons met these foaming squadrons with signal
bravery, but were driven from their ground by superior numbers. The two
regiments soon rallied, and being joined by several con^s of horse, returned to the
charge ; yet such was the resolution displayed by the French troopers that it
was not until the third charge that they were driven from the field. The two
victorious regiments were si>cciiilly thanked by the Uuke of Marllrerough. The
Greys lost about thirty killed and wounded.

Ki-i.ni The Uixtory «J th'- Scoifl [h-u-jmnn.

I- ■ !

VIII

THE STORY OF FARQUHAR SHAW
By James Grant

Tins soldier, whose name, from the circuiustanres connected with his remarkable
story, daring courage, and terrible fate, is still rcniembcred in the regiment, in
the early history of which he bears so prominent a part, was one of the first who
enlisted in Captain Campbell of Finab's independent band of tlie Rckudan Dhu,
or Black Watch, when the six separate companies composing this Highland
force were established along the Highland border in 1729, to repress the pre-
datory spirit of certain tribes, and to prevent the levy of blackmail. The com-
panies were independent, and at that time wore the clan tartan of their captains,
who were Simon Frazer, the celebrated Lord Lovat ; Sir Duncan Campbell of
Lochneil; Grant of Ballindalloch ; Alister Campbell of Finnb, whose father
fought at Daricn ; Ian Campbell of Carrick ; and Deors Monro of Culcairn.

The privates of these companies were all men of superior station, being mostly
cadets of good families — gentlemen of the old Celtic and patriarchal lines, and
baronial proprietors. In the Highlands, the only genuine mark of aristocracy
was descent from the founder of the tribe; all who claimed this were styled
uislain, or gentlemen, and as such, when off duty, were deemed the equal
of the highest chief in the land. Great care was taken by the six captains to
secure men of undoubted courage, of good stature, stately deportment, and
handsome figure. Thus, in all the old Highland regiments, but more especially
the Reicudan Dhu, equality of blood and similarity of descent secured familiarity
and regard between the officers and their men — for the latter deemed themselves
imerior to no man who breathed che air of heaven. Hence, according to an
English engineer officer, who frequently saw these independent companies, ' many
of those private gentlemen-soldiers have gdlies or servants to attend upon tbjm
in their quarters, and upon a march, to carry their provisions, baggage, and
firelocks.'

Such was the composition of the corps, now first embodied among that re-
markable people, the Scottish Highlanders^' a people,' says the Historian of
Great Britain, * untouched by the Roman or Saxon invasions of the south, and
by those of the Danes on the east and the west skirts of their country— the
unmixed remains of that vast Celtic empire which once stretched from the
Pillars of Hercules to Archangel.'

The Reicudan Dhu were armed with the usual weapons and accoutrements
of the line ; but, in addition to these, had the arms of their native country — the

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broadsword target p.stol, and long da-ger, while the sergeants carried the old
Celtic luagh or Lochaber axe. It was distinctly u„dersto5i by a"wLo enHsted
{JaI^T "T ""'>.' ""^'^ ™"'""y duties were to be conflnri ^Arthe S
land border, where, from the wild, predatory spirit of those eZswh eh dwelt
next the Lowlands ,t was known that they' would find more tl^renough of
Zi^^.r""" °! ""^ ""»' harassing kh.d. In the conflicts which daSyensurf
among the mountams-m the sudden marches by night ; the desperate brawU
Zm* \° "Ji"""'' 'i''\"'" ''™«' ^ ">e teeth, fieL is nature and ouKv
could make them, and who dwelt in wild and pathless fastnesses, secluded amid
rocks woods, and morasses, there were few who in courage? enSirdarSi and
act,v,ty equalled Farquhar Shaw, a gentleman from the Bries of L^clXf' who
was esteemed the premier private in the company of Campbell of Rn^b which
was then quartered m that district; for each company had its pcrnilent

^^ a™ hl^ J^V"— --"--" ---^^
rf^oe, and dnvc h.s skcne dhu to the hilt in a pine-log; while Ws a^t v"tv a nd
power of endurmg hunger, thirst, heat, cold, and fatigue became a proveJbamoM
the compan.es of the Watch : for thus he had been reared and trnhfed by h"?
father, a gcnun,e ol, Celtic gentleman and warrior, whose n,e2ry went back to
the days when Dundee led the valiant and tn.e to the field of Binr^^ and n
whose arms the Viscount fell from his horse in the moment of vieto^y^ind ,vi"

ThTs t ^e fa?her"o;FarnT"'>'H ''" "= "■"' " '""= "'gh'-der of the^old "eh "
inus the lather of Farquhar Shaw was a grim duinewasael, who never broke bread
or saw the sun rise without uncovering his head and invoking the nanie^of • &'d
the Blessed Mary, and St. Colme of the Isle ' ; who neve- sat dowTto a meal
without opening wide his gates, that the poor and needy niLht ™ter freX
who never refused the use of his purse and sword to a friend or ktasman and 7as
never seen unanned, even in his own dining-room; who never wronorf anv
man ; but who^^ suffered a wrong or affront to pask without sham andTperiv
vengeance; and who, rather than acknowledge the supremacy of Se House o^
Hanover, died sword in hand at the rising in Glensheil For th°s act his estates
were se«e,l by the House of Brcadalbanc,''and his only son, Farquhar became a
private soldier in the ranks of the Black Watch. arqunar, oecame a

It may rasily be supposed that the son of such a father was imbued with all
hs cavalier spirit, his loyalty and enthusiasm, and that his min™wLs fdlcd bv
Whe"n it?; ^"■7'"7: ""d romantic memories of his native mountain ^

comn,„L • f "■' ^^ <5°J™"«=''t t» fo™ the six independent Highland

companies into one regiment, Farquhar Slunv was left on the sick list tt the
cottageof a widow named JIhona Cameron, near Inverlochy, having been wounded
ma skirmish with caterans in Glen Nevis; and he writhed on h s siek brf when
h^ comrades, under Finab, marched for the Birks of Aberfeldy, the mustTr-place
of the who e where the companies were to be united into one battahon under
the celebmted John Earl of Crawford and Lindesay, the last of his aielnt r" ce
^ here covered with wounds and honours won in the services of Britain and

axe^Td^Zn"' ""'' """"! ''""S'; he was (for his wound, a slash from a pole-
notes o^ thcTr rctirr ™''' ^""l"'""' ''''"°'' '^""« f""' h"! "hen he heard the
notes of their rctirmg pipes dymg away, as they marched through Marybureh
and round by the margin of Lochiel. His spirit of honour was ruS more^
over, by a rumour spread by his enemies the catemns, against whoThrhad

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fought repeatedly, that he was Krov/inf; fainthearted at the pmspect of the
service of the Black Watch being extended beyorui tl;e lIiRhland border. As
rumours to this effect were generally finding credence in the glens, the fierce,
proud heart of Furquhiir burned within him with indignation and unmerited
shame.

At last, one night, an old crone, who came stealthily to the cottage in which
he was residing, informed him that, by the same outlaws who were seeking to
deprive him of his honour, a subtle plan hud been made to surround his tem-
porary dwelling and put him to death, in revenge for certain wounds inflicted
by hi i sword upon their comrades.

' And is this their plan, mother ? ' snid Farqnhar to thr crone.

' To burn the cottage am, you with it.'

* Dioul I say you so, Mf thcr Mhona,' he exclaimed ; ' then 'tis time I were
betaking me to the hills. L'rttcr have a cool bed for a few nights on the sweet-
scented heather, than be roasted in a burning cottage, like a fux in its hole.'

In vain the cottars besought him to seek concealment elsewhere, or to tarry
until he had gained his full strength.

' Were I in the prime of strength I would stay here,' said Farqnhar ; ' and
when sleeping on my sword and tar.^et would fear nothing. If thcisc dogs of
caterans came, they should be welcome to my life, if I could nut redeem it by
the three best lives in their band ; but I am weak as a growing boy, and so shall
be off to the free mountain side, and seek the path that leads to the Birks of
Abcrfcldy.'

' But the Birks are far from here, Farquhar,' urged the old Mhona.

* Attempt and Did-not were the worst of Fingal's hounds,' replied the soldier.
' Farquhar will owe you a day in harvest for all your kindness ; but his comrades
wait, and go he must I Would it not be a strange thing and a shameful too if
all the Reicudan Dhu should march down into the flat, bare lands of the Lowland
clowns, and Farquhar not be with them ? What would Finab, his captain,
think ? and what would all in Brae Lochaber suy ? '

' Beware,' continued the old woman, ' lest you go for ever, Farquhar.'

' It is longer to for ever than to Beltane, and by that day I must be at the
Biiks of Aberfeldy.'

Then, seeing that he was determined, the cronci muttered among themselves
that the tarvecoill would fall upon him ; but Farquhar Shaw, though far from
being free of his native superstitions, laughed aloud ; for the tarvecoill is a black
cloud, which, if seen on a New Year's eve, is said to portend stormy weather ;
hcnct it is a proverb for a misfortune about to happen.

' You were unwise to become a soldier, Farquhar,' was their last argument.

' Why ? *

' The tongue may tie a knot which the teeth cannot untie*

' As your husbands' tongues did, when they married you all, poor men ! '
was the good-natured retort of Farquhar. ' But fear not for me ; ere the snow
begins to melt on Ben Nevis, and the sweet wallflower to bloom on the black
Castle of Inverlochy, I will be with you all ogain,' he added, while belting his
tartan-plaid about him, slinging his target on his shoulder, and whistling upon
Bran, his favourite stag-hound ; he then set out to join the regiment, by the
nearest route, on the skirts of Ben Nevis, resolving to pass the head of liochleven
through Larochmohr, and the dee|i glens that lead towards the Braes of Rannoch,
a long, desolate, and f ^rilous journey, but with his sword, his pistols, and gigantic
hound to guard him, his plaid for covering, and the purple heather for a bed
whejiever he halted, Farquhar feared nothing. . . .

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The sun had >cl htfure Furquhar lilt the grcoii thatched elail.un, and already
the bases of the purple mountains were dark, though a red glow lingered on their
heath-elad MUnnuls. Lest some of the catenu. band, of whose malevolence he
was now the object, might already have kno» ledge or suspicion of his depnrtu ,
and be watdung Imn with lynx like eyes fniin behind some rock or bracken-busl ,
he pursued for a t ime a path » hieh led to the westward, until the darkness closed
eo-.plelcly m, then, alter casting round him a rapid an earching glance, he
s r„ck at once nito the old scehuled dr.)vc-way or Fingnlian toa.l, which descended
through the deep gorge towards the m.iulh of Glencoe. . . .

Far<iuhar, as he strode on, comforted himself with the refleetion that those
who are born at night— as his mother i.iij a hundred times told him he had t«en
—fimr mwspml.i ; so he took a good dram from his hunting-flask, and belted
his plaid tighter about hmi, after making a sign of tlie cross three times, as a pro-
tection against all (he iliablerie of the district. He snouted on Bran, whistled
the march of the Ulaek Watch, ' to keep his spirits cheery,' and pushed on his way
up the inoiintaiiis, wlule the broad raindrops of a coming tempest plashed heavily
m his lace. ■^

The lonely man eontinue.1 to toil up the wilderness till he reached the shoulder
of the mountain, wheie, (m his right, opened the black narrow gorge in the deep
boson, of which lay L,.cb Leven, aial, on his left, opened the glens that led towards
l«ch Treig i and now, like a tornado of the tropics, the storm burst forth hi all
Its fury I

As Farqii'iar staggered on, a gleam of lightning revealed to him a little turf
shieling under the brow of a pine-covered rock, and making a viTOrous effort
to wiihstand the roaring wind, which tore over the bare waste with all the force
and might ol a solid and palpable body, he reached it on his hands and knees.
Alter securing the rude door, which was composed of three cross-bars, he flung
himself on the earthen floor of the hut, breathless and exhausted, while Bran his
ilog, as if awed by the elemental war without, crept close beside him.
r ,^'*',*''''';l"|';'"''s 'l""'«l'ts reverted to all that he had heard of the district, he
lelt all a Ilighaiider's native horror of remaining in the dark in a phiee so weird
and wild ; and on finding near him a quantity of dry wockI— bog-pine and oak.
stored up doubtless by some thrifty and prnvklent shepherd— he produced his
Hint and tinder-box, struck a light, and, with all the readiness of a soldier and
huntsman, kinilled a fire in a corner of the shieling.

Having a venison steak in his haversack, he placed it on the embers to broil
heaped fresh fuel on liis fire, and drawing his plaid round Bran and himself, wearied
by the tod of his journey on foot in such a night, and over such country, he
gradually dropped asleep.

In his sleep the thoughts of Farquhar Shaw wandered to his comrades, then
at the Birks ot Abcrfeldy. He dreamt that a long time— how long he knew not-
had elapsed since he had been in their ranks ; but he saw the Laird of Finab
his captain, surveying him with a gloomy brow, while the faces ot friends and
comrades were averted from him.

' Why is this— how is this ? ' he demanded.

Then he was told that the Beicudati Dhu yiete disgraced by the desertion of
three of its soldiers, who on that dav were to die, and the regiment was paraded
to witness their fate. The scene, with all its solemnity and all its terrors, grew
vividly before him ; he heard the lamenting wail of the "pipes as the three doomed
men marched slowly past, each behind his black eoflin. and the scene ot this
catastrophe was far, far away, he knew not where ; but it seemed to be in a
strange country, and then the scene, the sights, and the voices of the people were

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foreign to him. In the iMickgroiind. above the ghttering bayifiivtH and bhie
bonnets of the Ulnck Wutch, ruse a U'ity custle of foreign ospect, hiiving a square
keep or tower, with four turrets, the vnnes of which were shining in the enrly
morning sun. In his cars floated the drowsy hum of a vast and increasing
multitudt'.

Fiirquhur trembled in every Hmb as the doomed men passed so near him that
he could see their breasts heave as they breathed ; but their faces were concealed
from him, for each had his head mullled in his plaid^ according to the old High*
land fashion, when imploring mercy or quarter.

Lotf) were cast with great solemnity for the firing party or exccutinners, and,
to his hornir, Farquhnr found himself one of the twelve men chosen for this, to
t'veiy soldier, most obnoxious duty.

>Vhen the time came fur firing, and the three unfortunates were kneeling
opposite, each within his cofTm, and each with his head muflled in his plaid,
Farquhar mentally resolved to close his eyes and fire at random against the wall
of the castle op|>osite ; but some mysteriuus and irresistible impulse compelled
him to look for a moment, and lo I the plaid had fallen from the face of one of
the doomed men, and, to his horror, the dreamer beheld himself I

His own face was before him, but ghastly and pale, and his own eyes seemed
to be glaring back upon him with affright, while their aspect was wild, sad, and
hagganl. The musket dnipped from his hand, and a weakness seemed to over-
spread his limbs, and writhing in ogony at the terrible sight, while a cold per-
spiration rolled in bead -drops over his clammy bn>w, the dreamer startetl, and
awoke, when a terrible voice, low but distinct, muttered in his ear —

' Farqihar Shaw, bUhidlh duil ri fear feachd, ach clia bhi dull rufear lie ! ' '

In due time he reached the regiment at its cantonments on the Hirks t.f
Abcrfeldy, where the independent ctimpanies, for the fijsc time, were exercised
as a battalion by their lieutenant-colonel, Sir Uoljcrt Monro oi Culcaim, who,
hix years afterwards, was slain at the battle of Falkirk.

Farqnliar's terrible dream and adventure in that Highland wildemess were
ever before him, and the events subsequent to the formation of theUljiekWiitcIi
into a battalion, with the excitement produced among its soldiers by an un-
expected order to march into England, served to confirm the gloom that preyed
ipon his spirits.

The order to march into England caused such a dangerous ferment in the
Black Watch, as being a violation of the principles ond promise under which it
was enrolled, and on which so many Highland gentlemen of good family enlisted
in its ranks, that the Lonl President, Duncan Forbes of CulU>den, warned General
Clayton, the Scottish commander-in-chief, of the evil effects likely to occur if this
breach oi f.'ith was persisted in ; and to prevent the corps from revolting en masse.
that officer informed the soldiers that they were to enter England ' solely to be
seen by King George, who had never seen a Highlat. ! soldier, and had been
graciously pleased to express, or feel, great curiosity on tue subject.'

Cajoled and flattered by this falsehood, the soldiers of the Reicudan Dhu, all
unaware that shipping tvos ordered to convey them to Flanders, began their march
for England in the end of March 1743 ; and if other proof be wanted that they
were deluded, the following announcement in the Caledonian Mercury of that
year affords it ; —

* On Wednesday last, the Lord Sempill's Regiment of Highlanders, began
their march for England, in order to be reviewed by his Majesty.^

' A m;iii may return fnim an expedition, l>ut tlierp i.4 no hope that he may return from the pravc.

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ei|"iptnent were a M,„rec of ii.t,™ . P^ '• '" "'"'"' ""■ir gnrb, awi-t a/.il

but us they drew nearer l„ I/..ln "™ML"L'if ' • ""l',"" "'"I »" n>a«i.tr.te, ;
to the malevolent n,ockery and the ^tt "*,'•» ';" '^I"f' ""y »'" "Po»«l
clown,/ and Ueeame gloomy and iuiien'"''' '""""'<" ">e tn. .™i K.^lhh

7»-;e:eS"'o''nlae^;!^r„\nuJ»l^^^^^ - '^' '«" M-X

ofspeetatorsi but the Kinff wZm nT- "^"'"' .^ad' before a va,t eoneour^

Creenwieh for Hanover „7,Jt^^,e'„\YC1n." '^.''.^'"il'' ''"'' -"^"ii^-"
Herem they found themselves, dTe^ te7f, , • 'h/t ™t '^ *'"*'"■''• "'otropolis.

'""aSi. "Avtw^'airchr/^' ^^ ^^^ '"" "'°'" " "■ """

.U^bon^^^S^----.,^.™..^.^^

'- X^" ^"Sr i^-tS!r - ?;; =^^^-'!^ c^;:^'^;.. „n

<;.™panions, like many others wL' ,"'»f«l"l""s smile ; for he and his

J.eobUesand ..vtiealfneemliaries ■'"""' »'»"' "-- "- -^iers, tore

tMe of a tub-n snare/ ^ ""= '''"S '""''"ig to sec you was all a

' A snare 1 '

'""SS""'^'^^^"^^^^"^ i^Hig!" '" ""^ "'»"">- '^"' y-- -

. •o^t^£r;"C■'^;u«^:tTa'" ^ '^-t™" "'-"•■■"-••
x^^^±^ "-eve^ri;-ea;^tn--r

^° • ^Ht^il^SS—-^-^" ^""^^ ^'"- -

. S.rs.' exclaimed Farquhar drawXH'^ifk"! •Jk"™ '^'*','" "' «overnn,cnt.'
mnation which caused his new friends at onelt , 1u ""■ . «"''"'>■ '""' d''".
them ' win you swear this u^n the dirk ?" '' "" '""'^ ''""•"" ''™ ■''"d

How ? Why 1 > ' ^ '

.and^P^t'^'Ifir-rquttrtreX'' """ •"""■"«■ '™""-'' ">^ "'«--

ma„^:is'lt'Cd!n"^''^cl^hrd^nrhtf■r^■''-.-^

ho contmued. ..„kin« to\is e^pa^tn": ' ^ 'i mTT^ fri::?p;Vvlif-

iSf-

eSS

I '

.liniixi Jtu'l'lnr^m, striking lln- basket hilt

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the U>rd ChMctllor who expects soon to be the Karl of Hardwick. informed
me I

The eyes of the corp.nil Hii>IrcI »illi imliKn:it|„ii ; ami Fur.iiilmr siruck hii
forehead us the memory of his lernulf dream in the hauiilid ((Ion ru»li.d upon
Ills irifiiiory.

•Oh yes,' HHid a third gentleman, onxious to mid his mite to the growing
misehief ; • it i» all a Whig plot of which you arc the viitims, as our kir„l ministry
ho|)e you Will all die oa like sheep with the rot ; or like the Marine lonw i or
the Invalids, the old 41st, in Jumaica,'

' They dare not deceive us 1 ' exr
of his claymore.

• ImUiHl I Why 1 •

"For in the country of the duns Bfty thousand claymores would be on the
grintistone to avenge us I '

A laugh folluacd this outburst.

* King ticorgc made you rods to scourge your own countrymen, and now,
as useless rods, y..u are to be Hung inl.i the fire,' siiid Ihc lirst speaker launtinglv.

!)y G.kI anil Mary I ' began .Macriierson again, laying a hand on his swoni
with sonihrc I'liry.

'IVacc, .M.iUsiliii,' inler|)osed Farquhar ; 'the Saxim is .ight and wc have
|K'eu rc.kil. llilhidh nmk ni mar is aiU Uhiii. (All (liings must be us Goil will
have tlicm.) i.et us seek llie Ittiiudan Uhu. .,iid woe to the Saxon clowns and
the tienn.-in churl, tlieir king, if lliey deceive us I '

On the Miiireh back to l„>ndon', 5l.,el'liiT,iin al.d Farquhar Shaw lirc.dcd
over what Ihcy had heard at Finehley, while to oth. r luenihcrs c.f the regiment
similar comuiiinications hud U'cn "lade, and lluis, crc nightfall, every soldier of
the HInck Watch felt assiinsl ;li he hail liccn entrapped by a royal falsehood,
which the sudden, and to thcni uu.iecountuble, departure of Ueorgc u. to Hanover
seenieil bcyiuid d-oubt to confirm.

At this crisis, the dream of Farquhar was rciiisl.inllv Ixfure him, as a fore-
boding of the terrors to conic, and he ^In.vc to thiust it from him j but the words
of that terrible warning a man nia\ icluru from an expedition, but never from
the grave -seemed ever in his cars.

On the night after the review, the whole re^UIuelll. except its ntliccrs, most
of whom knew what was on the tapis, assembled at twelve o'cliak on a waste
ouiimon near llighgate. The whole vure in heavy marching order ; and by the
direction of C;or|Hjial .Malcolm Mael'hcrson, after 'earefullv priming and loading
with ball-cartriilge, they comineneed their inarch in silciic'c and secixcy and
with all speed for Scotland— a wild, daring, anil romantic attempt, for they were
heedless and ignoranl of the vast extent of liosliie eounlrv that l.iv between
them and tlieir licimes, and seareely knew the route to pursue. Thej- luid now
but three common ideas : to keep together, to resist to the last, and to inarch
nortli.

With some skill and penetration they avoided the two great highways, and
marched by night from w.huI to w..nd, concealing themselves by day so well,
that for smiie time no one knew how or where they had gone, though orders had
been issued lo jill ollicers commaiidiiig troops between London and the Scottish
borders to overtake or intercept them ; but the 19th May arrived before tidings
reached the metropolis that the Black Watch, one thousand strung, had passed
Northampton, and u body of .Marshal Wade's Horse (now better known as the
8nl Prince of Wales' Dragoon Guards) overtook thcni, when faint by forced and
rapid marches, by want of food, of sleep and shelter, the unfortunate rejunent

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had entered Ladywood, about four mUes from the market town of Cundle-on-
hv n^^^' M t"^' .1! """•■'': "'"""'<^'' themselves in a spaciouslWeket wh™h

te^eX' indtur;TBrkere7""'^ """"'"''" -'-"' -^^

• fhT^ ^T- "' '"t'n'reter for his eomrades. heard his deraanZ," hSi were
„r .u"'""?*" ^' '"^™ conducted ourselves quietly and peacefullv in the knd

The remedy is easy,' said the captain.
' Name it, sir.*
* Submit.'

tn .1^1'"'™! "" '"* ™"' '" "■"■ mother-tongue, then how shall I translate it
to my comrades, so many of whom are gentlemen t ' translate it

Blakenev.'" ''°"' '""'■■• ""' """'■ ' ^"^ ^^ •"" "« *"■»' dictated by General

I w' ""^ general send us a written promise.'

_ Written ? ' reiterated the captain haughtily.
thi=l -^ f ?"" hand,' continued the Highlander emphatically; 'fur here in
this land of strangers we know not whom to trust when our King tas de^ivSTus"
And to what must the general pledge himself V * aeceivea us.

us air """ ^™' '^"" ""' ^ ''''™ """y' ^"^ that a free pardon be given to

' Otherwise '

' We will rather be cut to pieces.'

' This is your decision ? '

I It is,' replied F.irquhar sternly.

' Be assured it is a rash one.'

' I weigh my words, Saxon, ere I speak them. No man amone us will het«„

ThTlnT '■ "' '^11! '"r"" """ ""'^ f"' "" i" the ranks ofTheX^" DkT^.
»w thT^ru'^Pu,''^'^ "■' "^™'t "' his mission to the geneml,^S^e"ns well

S'itmrf'LSrb: Jattt"" '"'"'■'""=' "i theG'overnm'e^ton o^LTd'
ana mnamea to revolt by Jacobite emissaries on the other, was humanely willing
to temporise with them, and sent the captain to them once more ^ *

our Blood, lo be without arms, m our country, is in itself to be dishonoured '
^ Is this still the resolution of your comrades ? ' askci Captain Ball
ThVl'nTlT r"'' "' .f K'"tleman and soldier,' replied Farquhar.

whomhe\"fdfod^r'" ™""' ^' '"^ ''""''■ "" *-= "■■- ""^the men with
• Hitherto, my comrade' said he, ' I have been your friend, and the friend of

the regiment, and am still anxious to do all I ean to save you , but if you «>n'

tinue m open revolt one hour longer, surrounded as you all are by fhe Kiig's trjps.

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n.e„t fo, „ t,„,e but fr,™ the g™v" he^e "L^tv™" ""^ ^"""™ '»"'^''-

stepped fo™ard,ble« the prmncf^mUtn "''■'~™'»' """'«' M.cl'hersan,
outposts of his own men '^""'' ""'' "'^"'■"Paniod hi.u to the

to the regin,ent, tte "h^le h^t Tn f '" °' the oorporah that, after returning

down thfir a™s anS .tbS'^the rven7;Tr,;'vHe'" ^""^"""'^' »«"=^ *" '"^
offleers, believing impHcitlv the hf.t!I f ,t .P"''"<'«''« and a court-martial of
of the GovernZt to the k er f ,^;/ '"It^ """''/'^ the ultimate adherence

battalion wer; alike at theTere^ of thfj , ™ f.^"'""' "«■'"• "«" "" '" the
onee surreunded ^y stmng Se" of h,^ e rS^- °? '=»P""''"i"R. th'^V ''"e at
pieces grape-shotted 3 thTm^t.t I ' Tk' t"*" '■^Ulery, with their fldd-

resorted tTbv tho e^„ authonV and th ' >-' "'"^ '"'"'''"''■''^ ""** ""'"^

^-^^s'^s^^dSHHirn^-''^-

m^of such spi;it\?thrrfalo'^te'rc.™ette *" "''' ^ "^ ^P"^^' """^ '»

delS •r«AtV/tK,e''' *"'''' ""' ''""''' -"« •«>" '"^y ""d -n

and pr1™ri'Spwi' o"'caS ''"■''*• " ^™".T^" "^ "'" «""- "^ ^m.^,
continue.1 with priie ■ • I wishTtf „ T'^C?-''- } ""^^ ">■= insinuation,' he
Slen, because thTt hospitTb e latf ,hur' ^brJ"''"^ ""/"'"' ^^ "'^ """
™y dres. We had no iLler , '^^'^l^t .^^^-^^rLZT''' ""' '""™'^''

Gcor^;^r:xsr:/^;^t.jc'™iir'y-' »^' --^- rr*^-

the man I was afmid of Th s . L""' " "'K'-'ander, and never yet saw

An,ericanVr;rt "f to 'work v'rth": 1 hck":hve™%'" .'^ '^nsported'to the
with King George. We were 1 t » W, .K , ' .^''^ «'as "'" o"r bargain

and to Jep broLn efTsT^m the br!lfotll^'ehrer " '""^ '"' "'«''"'"'' '««'"■
the F^nrh^'s^^^'fi^'^nVw '•' "'T *'"T"-" ^•'^"' ' ^^^ -« "•«'

bonnitf:nT£:;« t'h.^i'Lrrwit^'rer"''^' •■"' '"^ ■■"-"^■^ '"""^ ■>« ">-

the court, but faiTed to Lvelhem ^^'™' «="«-<' "Wch deeply impressed

On the nmreh to the Tower of I^ndon. Farquhar wa. the most resolute and

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composed of his >inpanions in fetters and misfortune ; but on coming in sight
of that ancient fortress, his firmness forsook him, the blood rushed l^ck upon
his heart, and he became deadly pale ; for in a moment he recognised the castle
of his strange dream — the castle having a square tower with four vanes and
turrets — and then the whole scene of his foreboding vision, when far away in
lone Lochaber, came again upon his memory, white the voice of the warning spirit
hovered again in his ear, and he knew that the hour of his end was pursuing him.

Early on the morning of July 12, 1748, when the sun was yet below the dim
horizon, and a frowsy fog that lingered on the river was mingling with the city's
smoke to spread a gloom over the midsummer morning, all London seemed to
be pouring from her many avenues towards Tower Hill, where an episode of no
ordinary interest was promised to the sight-loving Cockneys — a veritable military
execution, with all its stem terrors and grim solemnity.

All the troops in London were under arms, and long before daybreak had taken
possession of an ample space enclosing Tower Hill ; and there, conspicuous above all
by their high and absurd sugar-loaf caps, were the brilliantly accoutred English and
Scots Horse Grenadier Guards, the former under Viscount Cobham, and the latter
under Lieutenant-General John Earl of Rothes, K.T., and the Governor of Dun-
cannon j the Coldstream Guards; the Scots Fusiliers; and a sombre mass in the
Highland garb of dark green tartans, whom they surrounded with fLxed bayonets.

These were the last two hundred men of the Reicudan Dhu selected for banish-
ment, previous to which they were compelled to behold the death, or — as they
justly deemed it — the deliberate murder under trust, of three brave gentlemen,
their comrades.

The gates of the Tower revolved, and then the craped and mufRed druns of
the Scots Fusilier Guards were heard beating a dead march before those who
were * to return to Lochaber no more.' Between two lines of Yeomen of the
Guard, who faced inwards, the three prisoners came slowly forth, surrounded by
an escort with fixed bayonets, each doomed man marching behind his cofiin,
which was borne on the shoulders of four soldiers. On approaching the parade,
each politely raised his bonnet and bowed to the assembled multitudes.

* Courage, gentlemen,' said Farquhar Shaw ; ' I see no gallows here. I
thank God we shall not die a dog's death I '

The murmur of the multitude gradually subsided and died away, like a breeze
that passes through a forest, leaving it silent and still, and then not a sound was
heard but the baleful rolling of the muffled drums and the shrill but sweet cadence
of the fifes. Then came the word. Halt I ^^t^aking sharply the silence of the
crowded arena, and the hollow sound of the three empty coffins, as they were
laid on the ground, at the distance of thirty paces from the firing party.

* Are you ready ? ' asked the provost-marshal.

' All ready,' replied Farquhar ; ' moch-eirigh ^luain, a nVn t-suain 'mAafrt.' *
This, to them, fatal 12th of July was a Monday ; so the proverb was solemnly
applicable.

Wan, pale, and careworn they looked ; but their eyes were bright, their steps
steady, their bearing erect and dignified. They felt themselves victims and
martyrs whose fate would find a terrible echo in the Scottish Highlanders ; and
need I add, the echo was heard, when two years afterwards Prince Charles un-
furled his standard in Glenfinnan ? Thus inspired by pride of birth, of character,
of country — by inborn bravery and conscious innocence, at this awful crisis,
they gazed around them without quailing, and exhibited a self-possession which
excitcil the pil y niul jHlTniraiiuii of nil who beheld them.

' Rnrly ri-iinfj; on >!atiday' gives a sound sleep on Tuesday.

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The clock struck the fatal hour at last !
* It is my doom I ' exclaimed Farquhar ;

* the hour of my end hath followed

They all embraced each other, and declined having their eyes bound up,
but stood boldly each at the foot of his coffin, confronting the levelled mubkets
of thirty privates of the Grenadier Guards, and they died like the bruve men they
had lived.

From Lfijrmh of the lilurk \Vn(rh.
IX

THE SCOTS FUSILIERS AT DETTINGEN

The 21st Royal Regiment of North British Fusiliers did themselves honour at
Detlingen. When the French cuirassiers pounced down upon them, Sir ^Vndrew
Agnew, deeming it inipossil)le to withstand their charge (for the impenetrable
square was not then known in the British army), ordered the regiment to fall back
from the centre by right and left. The cuirassiers rushed nmdly into the lane
they formed, believing that the line had been broken. The 2lst then delivered
a volley, and charged the horses with the bayonet, neiirly iinnihiluting the French
corps. The King did not fail to perceive the movement and its result. * Ah,
Sir Andrew,' said his Majesty pleasiintly, after the battle, ' the gens d'armes got
in among you to-day.' ' Ye. please yu\ir Majesty,' answered the bruve Scotch
knight, ^ but they did not get out again ! *

From The Hritith SoIHit.

THE CLAYMORE AT FONTENOY
Byy,H,Stocqu€ler

At Fontenoy the Highlanders (Bliick Watch) first smelt gunpowder : there, and
after^vards at Yescr and Barri, they proved that their discipline was equal to their
valour. The campaign in favour of the Austrian Succession, though undistin-
guished by any other battles, except Fontenoy, where a superior force u .Jer
Marshal Saxe defeated the British, brought out the military talents of the young
Duke of Cumberland, the son of the king. His Royal Highness had been present
at Dettingen, and displayed much of that cool courage which appears to have
been the invariable attribute of the Brunswick family. Fighting under the eye
of the Duke of Cumberland himself, the Highlanders showed their loyalty and
soon became the terror of the enemy. Their mode of attack was a combination
of the regularity of the line with the wild impetuosity of the Highland form of
warfare. Advancing, they would suddenly halt, drop to the ground to let the
fire of the enemy pass over them, then rising, with broadsword or musket and
bayonet in hand, they would dash upon the foe and drive him like chaff before
the wind.

All honour to the memory of the claymore, which has now fallen into desue-
tude 1 But, indeed, the charge of the Highlanders has lost nothing of its force.
Well has Dr. Jackson written : * Close charge was his ancient mode of attack, and
he still charges with more impetuosity, or sustains the charge with more firmness
— that is, disputes the ground with more obstinacy than almost any other man
in Europe. Some nations, who sustain the distant combat with courage, turn
with fear from the countenance of an enraged enemy. The Highlander advances
towards his antagonist with ardour, and, if circumstances permit him to grasp
him, as man grasps with man, his courage is assured.

From T>u Britiik Soidiw.

iv <l

CHAPTER III

The Wars in Canada, America, and the
"Vest Indies

1757-1S09

THE ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS

Haised by the S:,rl of Mar in IC78, ami known as Colonel the Earl of Mar's
Kcgiment of Foot or more popularly as ' The Earl of Mar's Grcy-breeks,' this
iotable resjimcnt has a lonj; and honourable record of service in the principal
campalRns of the British Aruiy. The men at first carried fusils instead of muskets,
and 1,1 1,07 they received the name by iiliich they luul been commonly known for
some years previously, and were ofTieially rcRistercd as the Scots Fusiliers Regi-
nient of Foot. In 1712 they became the Koyal North British Fusiliers Regiment
of loot i tater in 1751, he 21st (Royal North British) Fusiliers Regiment of Foot ;
then, in 1877, the 21st (Royal Scots Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot ; and since 1881
they have borne their present title of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. They served
under William m., under the great Duke of Marlborough, an.l under George ii
in Glanders and Germany ; went through the American War of 1778-81 siw
smiee in the West Indies ; and among the honours on their colours are the names
ol Alma Inkerman, and Sevastojiol. They fought against the Zulus, and in Uunna,
and with great distinction in the two South African Wars, and have already added
new glory to their record in the present war with Germanv.

The principal campaigns and battles in which the Royal Scots Fusiliers have
taken part include the following : -

Flanders, 1689-07.
Stccakirk, 1692.
Laiidcn, 1693.
Gcmiany, 1702-12.
Schcllcnburg, 1701.
Blcnhiim, 170*.
Haniilii's, 1700.
Oudenardc, 1708.
Lisle, 1708.
Malplaquet, 1709.
Douay, 1710.
Flanden, 1742-8.
W

Deltingcn, 1743.
Fontcnoy, 1743.
BcUe-Islf, 1701.
Amtrica, 1776-81.
Stillwater. 1777.
Martinique, 1794.
St. Lucia, 1704.
Guadaloupe, 1794.
Ionian Islands, 1809.
Uergcn-op-Zoom, 1814.
Netherlands, 1814.
Bladensburg, 1814.

Baltimore, 1814.
New Orleans, 1814.
Crimea, 1854-6.
Alma, 1854.
Inkerman, 1854.
Sevastopol, 1855.
South Africa, 1879.
Burma, 1883-7.
Tirah, 1897-8.
South Africa, 1899-1902,
Colenso, 1899.
Frederickstad, 1900.

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BASIL GAUNTLETT JOINS THE SCOTS GREYS
By James Grant

TuE next diiy s^iw me urmyed in full uniform. The lurjre.st mirrnr in Llic tavern
(it r.easurcd only six inclics euch way) by no means iifforded ine snlliciciit scope
for ihe admiration of my own person in this new uttirc ; though 1 could view it,
when relleeted at full length, in the shop windows, while passing along the streets,
into whieh I at onee issued, as Kirkttm said, * to exhibit niv wiir-paint.'

In those days — this was the year before we fougi ' ^linden — the Greys
wore double-breasted scarlet eoats, lined with blue, i. ng slit sleeves; long
slashed pockets were in each skirt, and a white worsted aiguilette dangled fnan
the right shoulder. \V"e wore long jack-boots, and tall grenadier caps, with the
Scottish Thistle and circle of St. Andrew in front. Our cloaks were scarlet lined
with blue shalloon, and in front they had rows of large flat buttons set two and
two, on white fn)gsor loops of bniid. On our collars we wore a grenade in memory
that at its formation a portion of the regiment h:id l>een armed with that fonnid-
able weapon, the sjime as the Sc<jts Horse Grenadier Guards.

Everywhere the proud motto of the corps met niy eye. On the 5-tnndards and
kettledrums, on our caps, carbines, and pistol -barrels, and on the blades of our
lung stniight broadswords, I read the wortls :

SECOND TO NONE

That short sentence seemed full of haughty spirit j it gave me a new life and
ftre'l my heart wi>h lofty inspirations. I repeated it, dreamed and pondered
over it, and as our departure for the seat of war was daily looked for, I longed for
active service and for the peril and adventure ever consequent thereto.

The brusque manners, rough words, oaths and expletives used by some of
my comrades certainly shocked and somewhat blunted my chivalry. To be sure,
all gentlemen then swore to their heart's content ; and I am sorry to say the army
carried the fashion to an extreme, and there a quiet fellow was sure to be mocked
and stigmatised as a Methodist or Quaker,

In all the many wars which succeeded its first formation, when it was raised
by Sir Thomas Dalyell and Graham of Claverhouse, in 1078, to fight against the
hapless Covenanters, our regiment had borne a great and glorious part. At the
battle of Drumckig and at Airsmoss, where Richard Camcnin the field preacher
fell, the Greys were, unhappily, the tem)r of their own countrymen ; and even
now, after the lapse of so many generations, traditions of those dark days still
lingered in our ranks — handed orally down from veteran to recruit.

In better tiroes they had served in the wars of Anne and of the earlier Georges,
and always with honour, for in every campaign they captured a colour, and at
the battle of Ramillies surrounded and disarmed the French Hcginient du Roi,
capturing no less thaii seventeen standards.

Our officers were all gentlemen of high spirit, who belonged to the best families
in Scotland ; and so attached were their men to them that the corps seemed
to be one large family. Punishments — especially degradations — were almost
unknown; yet 'auld Gcordie Buffcoat,' as they named Preston, was one of
the most strict colonels in the service.

Every regiment has its own peculiar history and traditions, just as a family,
a city, or a nation have ; these arc inseparably connected with its own honour.

SCOTLAND FOR EVER

rn'v'lifrTrr''' °'"*.,'""l,K'=''' ""''. "'"> "<'' "''li""-y RloO' of the country, and thus
inipire and fi.stcr the fine sentiment of esprit du corps.

From Sfi'fiuil in ,\'tnr.
Ill

THE ASSAULT ON TICONDEROGA
By Sir A. T. Quiller Couch

tne r.cottl.11 Hujal li.ery oij liome iluty, .oil .,re ir.ii.ed alter their ™l,.i.i.|, • Murray'. Buck..'
At the ah,rin.p.,st next n.onun), the men were in high spirits aRain. Every one
seemed to be posted ,„ the day's ,v„rl; ahead. The French had thrown np an
outwork on the landward end of tlie ridge ; an engineer had elimbed Rattlesnake
his rl.n!"rt ; ''l'^'"-""!' -nd conned it through hi, glass, ami had hnmght down
his report two hours ago. The wh.te-eoats ha<l hecn working like niggers, helped
by some remforeements which had come in overnight- Ldvis with the Royal
Houssill,,!,, the scouts .s,ud : but the thing was a r,a,gh and ready affair of logs,
and the troops were to carry it with the bayonet. John aske<l in what direction
It 1.1) and thumbs were jerked tuwanls the sereening forest across the river
The distance (some said) was not two miles. Colonel Ueaver, returning from a
of iioSrs or le'r'" '""'"'""^'' "'^ ■■"""""■• ^he 4.ith would march in a couple
At breakfast Howe's death seemed to be forgotten, and John found no time
for so enin thoughts. Bets were laid that the French would not wait for the

foTth „^ h'', "'"''' u "!'■'■' ^"u- "'"' "■'"■ ^^"'^ ""-y could scarcely be
to the ,„H r'^ Bradstreet, having flnished his bri.lge. had started back
»^d fl '»"'','"«•'•'"«'= '" hau a do«:n of the lighter batteaux across the portage
Tif»t f T 7", : ^^', Champlain filled with riflemen. Bradstreet was
Llr ^t h Tk K ".™"'!^ '" '"^ '" '""^ * "r'"" "'d f"" M"ntcalm would
Smnl . K S'^ '^,^'°PPcd so easily, and to pile defences on the ridge was

S'CulSr nXh^r " '""■■ ^ ""^ "'" "' "^' "'""' "■""■'"''■^ ""'
Well, fighting or no, some business was in hand. Here was the battalion in
naotion; and, to leave the enemy in no doubt of our martial ardour, here were
the drums playing away like mad. The echo of John's feet on the wooden bridge
awoke him from these vai i shows and rattlings of war to its real meaning, and
„lVil^ J, f '■" kep him solemn company as he breasted the slope beyond
and began the tedious climb to the right through the woods
K Jy ^T'^' /^""""S '" one by one, reported them undefended : and the

hfd^^i' °?h f""^^ ^ v"" ""'""f *"'y' '"^P' «"■"' °"^"- Towards the summit,
indeed, the front ranks appeared to straggle and extend themselves confusedly
but the disorder, no more than apparent, came from the skirmishers returning
and falling back upon either flank as the column scrambled up the last flvl
hu,«lred yards and halted on the fringe of the clearing. Of the enemy Joh^
could see nothing : only a broad belt of sunlight beyond the last few tree-trunks
and their green eaves. The advance had been well timed, the separate columns
arriving and commg to the halt almost at clockwork intervals ; nor did the halt
give him much leisure to look about him. To the right were drawn up the High-
Be. Ji^' hT f^'^^^f' '''!?'^'"§ "'^^ *' '"'"' 8'°<""S' 1° the space between,
Beaver had stepped forward and was chatting with their colonel: By and bv
the dandified Gage joined them, and after a few minutes' talk Beaver came striding

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back, with his scabbard tucked under his annpit, to be clear of undergrowth.
At once the order was given to fix bayonets, and at a signal the columns were
out in motion and marched out upon Iht edfie of the clearing.

There, as he stepped furth, the flash of the noonduy suii u|)on Hncs uf steel
held John's eyes dazzled. He heard the word given again to lisilt, nnd the com-
mand ' Left wheel into line ! ' He heard the calls that followed—* Eyes front I '
'Steady,' 'Quick march,' 'Halt, dress,'— and felt, rather than saw, the whole
elaborate manoeuvre; the rear ranks lucking up, the covering sergeants jigging
about like dancers in a minuet — pace to the rear, side step to the rijjht -the pivot
men with stiff amis extended, the companies wheeling up and dressing ; nil
happening precisely as on parade.

What, after all, was the difference ? Well, to begin with, the clearing ahead
in no way resembled a parade ground, being strewn juuI criss-erusscd with t'iiUen
trees and interset with stumps, some cleanly cut, others with jugged splinters
from three to ten feet high. And beyond, with tlie fierce sunlight quivering
above it, rose a mass of prostrate trees piled as if fur the base of a tremendous
bonfire. Not a Frenchman showed beliind it. Was tfuit what they had to carry t

* The battalion will advance I '

Yes, there lay the barrier ; and their business was simply to rush it ; to advance
at the charge, holding their fire until within the breastwork.

The French, too, held their fire. The distance from the edge of the clearing
to the abattis was, at the most, a long musket-shot, and for two-thirds of it the
crescent-shaped line of British ran as in a paper-chase, John & Cleeve vaulting
across tree trunks, leaping over stumps, and hurrahing with the rest.

Then with a flame the breastwork opened before him, and with a shock as
though the whole ridge lifted itself against the sky — a shock which hurled him
backward, whirling away his shako — he saw the line to right ami left wither
under it and shrink like parchment held to a candlc-flaine. Fur a moment the
ensign staff shook in his hands, as if whipped by a gale. He steadied it, and stood
dazed, hearkening to the scream of the bullets, gulping at a lump in his throat.
Then he knew himself unhurt, and, seeing that men on either hand were picking
themselves up and running forward, he ducked his head and ran fonvard too.

He had gained the abattis. He went into it with a leap, a dozen men at his
heels. A pointed bough met him in the ribs, piercing his tunic and forcing him
to cry out with pain. He fell back from it and tugged at the interlacing btmghs
between him and the log wall, fighting them with his left, pressing them aside,
now attempting to leap them, now burst through them with his weight. The wall
jetted flame through its crevices, and the boughs held him fast within twenty
yards of it. He could reach it easily (he told himself) but for the staff he carried,
against which each separate twig hitched itself as though .-Minintcd by special
malice.

He swung himself round and forced his body backwards against the tangle ;
and & score of men, raUying to the colours, leapt in after him. As their weight
pressed him down supine and the flag sank in his grasp, he saw their faces — High-
landers and redcoats mixed. They had long since disregarded the order to hold
their Aire, and were blazing away idly and reloading, cursing the boughs that
impeded their ramrods. A corporal of the 46th had managed to reload, and was
lifting his piece when — a bramble catching in the lock — the charge exploded in
his face, and he fell, a bloody weight, across John's legs. Half a dozen men,
leaping over him, hurled themselves into the lane which John had opened.

Ten seconds later — but in such a struggle who can count seconds ? — John had
flung off the dead man and was on his feet again with his face to the rampart.

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84 SCOTLAND FOR EVER

The men who hail hurried past him were there, all six of them, but stuck in strange
attitudes and hung across the withering boughs like vermin on a gamekeeper's
tree—corpses every one. The rest Imil vanished, and, turning, he found himself
iilonc. Out in the cleiiring, under the drifted smoke, the shattered regimejits
were re-f.irming for a second ehiirge. Gripping the colours, he staggered out to
join them, and as he went a bullet sang past him and his left wrist dnipped nerve-
less at his side. He scarcely felt the wound. The brutal jar of the repulse had
stunneil every sense in him hul that of thirst. The reek t>f gunpowder caked in
his throat, and his ton}.'ue crackled in his mouth like a withered leaf.

Some one was pointing iMck over the tree-tops to.v,;rds Rattlesnake Moun-
tiiin i nnd on tl. slopes tlicre, as the smoke cleared, sure enough, figures were
moving. Guns V A couple of guns planted there could luive knocked this
eurscil rampart to flinders in twenty minutes, or plumped round shot at leisure
among the French huddled within. Where was the general 1

The general was down at the sawmill in the valley, seated at his table, penning a
dispatch. The men on Rattlesnake Mountain were' Johnson's Indians— Mohawks,
Oneidas, and others of the Six Nations— who, arriving late, htd swamied up by
instinct to the key of the position and seated them elves there with impassive
faces, asking each other when the guns would arrive and this stupid folly cense.
They had seen artillery, perliaps, once in their lives, and had learnt the use of it.

Oh, it was cruel I By this time there was not a man in the army but could
have taught the general the madness of it. But the genend was down at the
sawnnll two miles away j and the broken regiments re-fomieil and faced the
rampart again. The sun beat down on the clearing, heating men to madness.
The wounded went down through the gloom of the woods and were carried past
the sawmill, by scores at tirst, then by hundreds. Within the sawmill, in his
cool chamber, the general sat and wrote. Some one (Gage it is likely) sent down,
beseeching him to bring the guns into play. He answered that the guns were
at the landing-stage, and could not be planted within six hours. A second
messenger suggested that the assault on the ridge had already caused inordinate
loss, and that by the simple process of marching round Ticonderoga and occupy-
ing the narrows of Lake ChaTnplaiu, Montcalm could be starved out in a week.
The general showed him the door. Upon the ridge the fight went on.

John & CIceve had by this time lost count of the charges. Some had been
feeble ; one or two superb ; and once the Highlanders, with a gallantry only
possible to men past caring for life, had actually heaved themselves over the
parapets on the Flinch right. They had gone into action a thousand strong ;
they were now six hundred. Charge after charge had flung forward a few to
leap the rampart and fall on the French bayonets ; but now the best part of the
company piaired over. For a moment sheer desperation carried the day ; but
the white-eoats, springing back off their platforms, poured in a volley and settled
the question. That night the Black Watch called its roll : there answered five
hundred men less one.

It was in the next charge after this— half-heartedly taken up by the exhausted
troops on the right— that John & Cleeve found himself actually climbing the log-
wall toward which he had been straining all the afternoon. What carried him
there, he afterwards afflnned, was the horrid vision of young Sagramore of the
27th impaled on a pointed branch and left to struggle in death agony while the
regiments rallied. The body was quivering yet as they came on again ; and
John, as he ran by, shouted to a sergeant to drag it off, for his own left hand hung
powerless, and the colours encumbered his right. In front of him repeated
charges had broken a sort of pathway through the abattis, swept indeed by an

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enfilading fire from two angles of the breastwork, ^lipiiery with blood and hiini-
percd with corpses ; but the grupe-shot which Imd accounted for most of these
no longer whistled along it, the French hiving run otl their guns to the right to
meet the capibd attack of the Highlanders. Tlirough it he torce<i his way. the
pressure of the men behind him lifting and bearing him forward whenevi r the
ensign staff for a moment impeded him. He noted tliat the leaves, which ut
noon luul been green and sappy, with o. ly a slight crumpling of their edges,
were now grey and curled uito tight scrolls, cmckling as he brushed thcrn aside.
How long had the day lasted, then 1 And would it ever end 1 The vision of
young Sagrumore followed him. He had known Sagramore at Halifax, and
invited him to mess one night with the 4(Ith— as brainless and sweet-tempered a
boy as ever muddled his drill.

John was at the foot of the rampart. While with his injurcil hand he fumbled
vainly to chmb it, some (me stooped a shoulder and hoisted him. He Hung a leg
over the parapet and glanced down a moment at tiie man's face. It was the
sergeant to whom he had shouted just now.

' Right, sir,' the sergeant grunted ; " we 're after you ! '

John hoisted the colours high and hurrahed.

' Forward 1 Forward, Forty-sixth I "

Then, as a dozen men heaved themselves on to the parapet, a fiery pang
gripped him by the chest, and the night— so long held back — came suddenly,
swooping on him from all comers of the sky at once. The grip of his knees relaxed.
The sergeant, leaping, caught the standard in the nick of time, as the Ump foot
slid and dropped within the rampart.

From Furt Amity.
IV

TICONDEROGA AND THE GHOST STORY OF MAJOR

DUNCAN CAMPBELL
By Francis Parkman

The central column of regulars was commanded by Lord Howe, his own regiment,
the 33th, in the van, followed by the Royal Americans, the 27th, 44th, 4flth, and
80th infantry and the Highlanders of the 42nd, with their major, Duncan Can pbell
of Invemwe, silent and gloomy amid the general cheer, for his soul was dark
with foreshaduwings of death. . . .

Towards S o'clock two English columns jomed in a most determined a.s.sault
on the extreme right of the French, defended by the battalions of Guicnne and
Btom. The danger for a time was imminent. Montcalm hastened to the spot
with the reserves. The assailants hewed their way to the foot of the breastwork,
and though again and again repulsed, they again and again renewed the attack.
The Highlanders fought with stubl)orn and unconquerable fury. ' Even those
who were mortally wounded,' writes one of their lieutenants, ' cried to their com-
panions not to lose a thought upon them, but to follow their officers and mind the
honour of their country. Their ardour was such that it was difficult to bring
them off. Their major, Campbell of Inverawe, found his foreboding true. He
received a mortal shot, and his clansmen bore him from the field. Twenty-five
of their officers were killed or wounded, and half the men fell under the deadly
fi.e that poured from the loopholes. Captain John Campbell and a few followers
tore their way through the abattis, climbed the breastwork, leaped down among
the French, and were bayoneted there.

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Mention has been made of the death of Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe.
The following fiimily tradition relating to it was told lue in 1878 by the late Dean
Stjinicy. ...

The uncicnt castle of Inverawe stands by the banks of the Awe, in the midrt
of the wild and picturesque scenery of the Western Highlands. Ijite one evening,
before the mi<ldlc of the last century, as the laird, Duncan fumpbell, sat alone
m the old hall, there was a loud knocking at the gate ; and opening it, he saw a
stranger, with torn clothing and kilt besmeareu with blood, who in u breathless
voice begged for asylum. He went on to say that he had killed a man in a fray,
and that the pursuers were at his heels. Campbell promised to shelter Lim.
'Swear on your dirk I ' said the stranger, and Campbell swore. He then led
hini to a secret recess in the depths of the castle. Scarcely was he hidden when
again there was a loud knocking at the gate, and two armed men appeared.
Your cousin Donald has been niurdend and we are looking for the murderer I '
Campbell, remembering his oath, professed to have no knowledge of the fugitive,
and the men went on their way. The laird, in great agitation, lay down to rest
in a large dark room, where at length he fell asleep. VVa ing suddenly in bewilder-
ment and terror, he saw the ghost of the murdered n'-;.ald standing by his bed-
side, and heard a hollow voice pronounce the words : ' Inverawe I Inverawe I
blood lias been shed. Shield not the murderer I ' In the morning Campbell
went to the hiding-place of the guilty man and told him that he could harbour
him no longer. ' You have sworn on your dirk I ' he replied ; and the laird of
Inverawe, greatly perplexed and troubled, made a compromise between con-
flicting duties, promised not to betray his guest, led him to the neighbouring
mountain, and hid hiin in a cave.

In the next night, as he lay tossing in feverish slumliers, the same stem voice
awoke him, the ghost of his cousin Donald stood again at his bedside, and again
he heard the same appalling words: 'Inverawe I Inverawe I bli- d has been shed.
Shield not the murderer I' At break of day he hastened, in s ge agitation, to
the cave; but it was empty, the stranger was gone. At night, le strove in vain
to sleep, the vision appeared once more, gh.istly pale, but lesf rn of aspect than
befure. 'Farewell, Inver.iwe I ' it said; ' Farewell, till we m, c at Ticonderoga 1'
The stmnge name dwelt in Campbell's memory. He had joined the Black
Watch, or 4'Jnd Regiment, then employed in keeping order in the turbulent
Highlands. In lime he became its major ; and, a year or two after the war
broke out, he went with it to America. Here, to his horror, he leanicd that it
was orderc. • to the attack of Ticonderoga. His story was well known among his
brother officers. They combined among themselves to disarm his fears ; and
when they reached the fatal s( ,t, they told him on the eve of the battle, ' This
is not Ticonderoga; we are not there yet; this is Fort George.' But in the
morning he came to them with haggard looks. ' I have seen him 1 You have
deceived me I H amc to my tent last night I This is Ticonderoga I I shall
die to-day I ' and ms prediction was fulfUled.

from Monlcali^i and fyoife.

THE LOST REGLMENT
By James Grant

I HAVE been told that a better or a braver fellow than Louis Charters of ours
never drew a sword. He was, as the regimental records show, captain of our
seventh company, and major in the army when the corps embarked for service in

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the lUinoit in 1T0S ; but prior to that hii itory wu a strange and romantic one.
Louis was a cadet of one of the oldest houses in Scotland, the Charters of Amis-
field ; thus he was a lineal descendant of the famous Red Rievcr. Kurly in life
he had been gazetted to an ensigncy in Montgomery's llighlundcrs, the old 77th,
when the etirps was raised by Colonel Archibald Montgomery (afterwards Earl
of Kgliuton and Governor of Dumbarton) among the Frast-rs, Macdonalds,
Camerons, Macleans, and other Jacobite clans.

Charters was a handsome and mthusiastic soldier, full of the old r^liivalry
and romance of the Highlanders ; but at the time he joined the Blac!.. Watch,
with the remnant of Montgomery's regiment, which volunteered into our ranks
in 1768, he was a pale, mixxly, tnd disappointed man, who had no hope in the
service, but that it might procure him an honourable death under the balls of
an enemy.

The story of Louis Charters was as follows : —

In January 1755 he was recruiting at Perth for the 77th, when it was his
good, or perhaps ill, fortune to become attached to a young latiy possessed of
great attractions, whom he met at a ball, and who was the only daughter of the
Lainl of Tullynairn, a gentleman of property in tne vicinity of the ' Fair City.'

Emmy Stuart was four-and-twenty, and Louis was three years her senior.
She was tall and beautiful in face and figure ; her hair was chesnut, her eyes
hazel, and there was a charming droop in their lids which enhanced all her -. arictics
of expression, especially the droll, and lent to them a seductive beauty, most
dangerous to the peace of all who engaged in a two-handed flirtation with her.

It was no wonder thiit Louis lovwl Emmy ; the only nturvcl would have been
had he proved invulnerable ; so he fell before a glance of her bright hiizel eyes,
as Dunkirk fell before the allied armies. But Emmy was so gay in manner,
distinguishing none in particular, thnt Charters was often in an ogony of anxiety
to learn whether she would ever love him ; and moreover, there was one of ours,
a Captain Douglas, recruiting in Perth, who possessed a most annoyingly hand-
some person, and who hovered more about the beautiful Emmy than our friend
of the 77th could have wished. To make the matter w(trse, Douglas was an old
lover, having met Emmy at a ball three years before, and been shot clean through
the heart by one of her most seductive gliinees.

Emmy was so full of repartee and drollery, that although Charters was always
making the most desperate love to her, he was compelled to mask his approaches
under cover of pretty banter or mere flirtation ; thus leaving him an honourable
retreat in case of a sharp repulse ; for he could not yet trust himself to opening
the trenches in earnest, lest she might laugh at him, as she had done at others.

So passed away the summer of — I am sorry to give m* antique an epoch —
1755. The snow began to powder the bare scalps of the Highland frontier;
the hoar frost wove its thistle blades on the windows in the morning, and our
lovers found that a period was put to their rambles in the evening, when the sun
was setting behind the darkening mountains of the west.

Now came the time to ballot for partners for the winter season ; and then it
was that Louis first learned to his joy that he was not altogether indifferent to
the laughing belle. The fr.xhion of balloting fur partners was a very curious one,
and now it is happily abolished in Scottish society ; for only imagine one's sensa-
tions, good reader, on being condemned to dance everything with the same girl,
and with her only, during a whole winter season I Besides, us the devil would
be sure to have it so, one would always have the girl one did not want. The
laws respecting partners were strictly enforced, and when once settled or fairly
handfasted to a dancing girl for the Bcason, a gentleman w-as on no account per-

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miltwl to ctmnRc, even fi.r n sinnle night, on pain of being shot or run thiouch
the body by her nniiTsl mule rel;itive.

In the bcKinninu i.f the Mrinter wiisnn, the appointment for partnem u»u«lly
took plnce in eiich little ectcrie b«fore the opening of the (inl biill or assembly.
A gcnllemnli'.! tripleeockcil lieiiver mis unfliippecl, unci the funs of ull the iBilios
present were slily put therein ; the gentlemen were then blindfolilcd, nnd inrli
»clcclid u Tin i Ihiri she to whom it Ix-longeil, however ill they might be psired
or a»«<)rle<l, wiis his partner for the season. Suoh was the strange law, most
rigidly enforced in the days of Miss Nicholas, wh- was then the mirror of fashion
and presiding giKldess of the Edinburgh assemb .^ .

When the time for balloting came, great was the anxiety of poor Ixiuis Charters
lest his beloved Emmy might fall «■> the lot of that provoking fellow Douglas of
ours i but juilgc of his joy whci, '•. -,i.iy told him, with the most urch and beautiful
smile that ever lighted up a guiu mI lovely haiel eyes, how to distinguish lur fan
from amid the eighteen or twenty that were deposited in the hat.

• Now, my dear Mr. Charters.' said she in a whisper, • I never pretended to
be feniciously honest, and thus my unfortunate little tongue is always getting
me into some frightful scrape ; hut I shall give you n token by which you will
know my ' n. Uoes that make you supremely happy ? '

I Hai py, Emmy ? Dear Emmy, more than ever you will give me credit for 1 '
' P>: not be sure of that, and do not make a scene. Quick now, lest some one
ar.'n ipate you.'

■ But the fan '

' Has a silver hull in lieu of a ta.ssel. Now go and prosper.'
Thus indicated, he soon selected the fan and drew it forth, to the annoyance
of Douglas, who beheld him present it to the fair owner ; and her hazel eye
sparkled with joy as Charters kissed her hand with a matchless air of ardour and
respect. Honest Charters felt quite tipsy with joy.

With the dancing of a whole season tx;fore them, the reader may easily imagine
the result. All the tabbies, gossips, and coteries of the Fuir City had long since
assigned them to each other ; and though the mere magic of linking two names
constantly together has done much to cajole boys nnii girls into a love for each
other, no such magic was rcqcircd here, for Emmy, I have said, was four-and-
twcnty, and Louis three years her senior.

Finding himself completely outwitted, and that the fan of a demoiselle of
somewhat mature age and rather unattractive nppcurnnee had fallen to his lot,
Willy Douglas 'evacuated Flanders,' i.e. f,,p,ook the ballroom, and bent all his
energies to recruiting for the second battalion of the Black Wotch, leaving the
fair field completely to his more successful rival.

But thoiiRh assigned to Charters by the fashion of the time, and by her own
pretty manoeuvre, as a partner for the season, our gay coquette would not yet
acknowledge herself ei.nquercd; and Charters felt with some ai.:..etv that she
was uinusiiiK herself with him, and that the time was ilrawing near when he would
have to rejoin his regiment, which was then expcctiiiu the route for America,
over the fortunes of which the clouds of war were gallieriiig. Besides, Emmy
had a thousiind little whims and teasing ways about her, all of which it was his
daily pleasiire, and sometimes his task, to satisfy and soothe ; and often they
had a quarrel— a real quarrel— for two whole diiys. These were two centuries
to Louis i hut then it was of course made up again ; nnd Emily, like an empress,
gave him her dimpled hand to kiss, reminding him, with a coy smile, that

' A Iimr's ijiiarnl wns but love rciicweil.'

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' True, Emmy ; but I would infinitely prefer > love that rcqiiiml no renewiil.'
Mid Charten, with a Nifih,

' How tiiiMinw you become ! V flen make me think of Willv Dfiuglna.

Well, and where ahall we And Ihii reuiurknble lov von «prnk of ! '

Charten gaied at her iinxitiusly, and after -ntary f»;iiis4', with all bin

loul in luH eyes and on his ti.nuiir, he said —

' Listen to me, ileartst Emmy. Of all things necessary to eoiiduce to a man's
happ:..,-s. love is the princi|ial. It purifies and shells a glorv, a halo over every-
thing, iwt chieily around the beloved object herself. It awakens and matures
every slutubering virtue in the heart, and causes us to become as pure and noble
as a uMin nuiy be, to make him more worthy of the woman we love. Such, dear
Emmy, is my love for you.'

Thig time Emmy heard him in silence, with downcast eyes, a blush playing
upon her beautiful cheek, a smile hovering on her alluring little mouth, with her
breast heaving and her pretty flngen playing nervously with her fan and the
frills of her busk.

This conversation may be taken as a specimen of a hundred that our lovers
had on every convenient opportunity when I-ouis was all truthful earnestness,
while Emmy was all fun, drollery, and coquetry, yet loving hitn nevertheless.

But a crisis came, when Charters received, by the hand of his eliicf friend.
Lieutenant Alastcr Mackenzie, of the house of Seaforlh. a command to rejoin
his regiment, then under orders to embark at (Ireeimck, to share in the ex-
pedition which Brigadier-Ceneral Forbes of Pittenerief was tu lead against Kort
du Quesne, one of the three great enterprises undertaken in 17.18 against the
French possessions in North America. How futile were the tears of Enuny now I

' Though divided by the sea, dear Louis, our hope will be one, like our love,'
she sobbed in his ear.

' Think— think of me often, very often, as I shall think of you.'

■ I do not doubt you, Louis. I now judge of your long, faithful, and noble
affection by my own. Oh, Louis I I have li<Tn foolish and wilful ; I have pained
you often ; but you will forgive your poor Emmy now ; she judges of your love
by her own.'

It was now too late to think of marriage. Emmy, sulidued by the prospect
of a sudden and long separation from her winning and handsome lover, and by
a knowledge of the dimgers that lay before him by sea and land, the French bullet,
the Indian arrow — all the risks of war and pestilence — was almost broken-hearted
on his departure. The usual rings and Kx'ks of hair, the customary embraei s,
were exchanged ; the usual adieus and promises — solemn and sobbing' promises of
mutual fidelity— were given, and so thi'V parted ; and with sad Kmmy's kiss
yet lingering on his lips, and her undried tears on his check, poor Charters found
himself marching at the head of his party of fifty recruits, while the drum and
fife woke the echoes in the romantic ' Wicks of Uaiglie,' as he bade a lung adieu
to beautiful Perth, the home of his Emmy, and joined the headquarters of
Montgomery's Highlanders at (Jreenock.

But amid all the bustle of the embarkation in transports and ships of war —
such rough sea-going ships as Smollett lias portraycil in his Hodmrk Kandom—
Charters saw ever before him the hiippy. bright. ;iiiil Innntiful Emmy of the past
year of joy ; or as he had la.st seen her, pale, erushcd, anil drooping in tears upon
his breast — her coquetry, her drollery, her laughter all evaporated, and the true
loving and trusting woman alone remaining— he eyes full of affection, and her
voice tremulous with emotion.

Louis sailed for America with one of the finest regiments ever sent forth by

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Scotland, which, in the war that preceded the declaration of American inde-
pendence, gave to the British ranks more than sixty thousand soldiers-few,
indeed, of whom ever returned to lay their bones in the land of their fathers.

Montgomery s Highlanders consisted of thirteen companies, making a total
ol U60 men, including 05 sergeants who were armed with Lochaber axes, and
80 pipers armed with target and claymore.

Once more among his comrades, the spirit of Charters rose again ; a hundred
kinilly old regimental sympathies were awakened in his breast, and, though the
keen regret of his recent parting was fresh in his memory, yet in the conveSation
ol Alaster Mackenzie (who shared his confidence), and in his miliUry duty he
lound a relief from bitterness— a refuge which was denied to poor Emmy, who
was left to the solitude of her own thoughts and the bitter solace of her own tears,
amid those familiar scenes which only conduced to add poignancy to her grief,
and served hourly to recall some memory of the absent, and those hours of love
and pleasure that had fled, perhaps never to return.

Though our lovers had resolved that nothing should exceed the regularity
of their correspondence, and that the largest sheets of foolscap should be duly
niled with all they could wish each other to say, in those days when regular mails,
steamers, telegraphs, and penny postage were not vet contained in Time's capacious
wallet, neither Emmy nor Charters had quite calculated upon the devious routes
or the strange and wild districts into which the troops were to penetrate, or the
chances of the Western war, with all its alternate glories and disasters.

After a lapse of two long and weary months, by a sailing vessel, poor Emmy
received a letter from Louis, and, in the hushed silence of her own apartment, the
humbled coquette wept over every word of it, and read it again and again, for it
seemc.1 to come like the beloved voice of the writer from a vast distance and from
that land of danger. Then when she looked at the date and saw that it was a
month— a whole month— ago, and when she thought of the new terrors each day
brought forth, she trembled and her heart grew sick ; then a paroxysm of tcaii
was her only relief, for she was a creature of a nervous and highly exci'able
temperament. * '

It described the long and dreary voyage to America in the crowded and comfort-
less transport— one thought ever in his soul— the thought of her j one scene ever
around him-sca and sky. It detailed the hurried disembarkation and forced
march of General Jorbes's little army of 6200 soldiers from Philadelphia in the
beginning of July, through a vast track of country, little known to civilised men •
alJ but impenetrable or impassable, as the roads were mere war-paths, that lay
through dense untrodden forests or deep morasses and lofty mountains, where
wild, active, and ferocious Indians, by musket, tomahawk, sealping-knife, and
poisoned arrow, eoopernted with the French in hanissing our troops at every
rood of the way. He told her how many of the strongest and healthiest of Mont-
gomery s Hrghlandcrs perished amid the toil and horrors they encountered:
but how still he bore up, animated by the memory of her, by that love which was
a second life to him, and by the darting hope that, with Cod's help, he would
surviv-! the campaign and all its miseries, and would find himself again, as of old
seated at the side of Ins beloved Emmy, with her eli< ,k on his shoulder and her
dear little hand clasped in his.

And here ended this sorrowful letter, which was dated from the camp of the
Scottish brigadier, who halted at Haystown, ninety miles on the march from
tort (lu Qucsne. Thus, by the time Emmy received it, the fort must have been
attacked and lost or won.

• Attacked I ' How brcathlesslv and with what protracted agony did she

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long for intelligence— for another letter or for the Wur Ollice lists ' Hut days
weeks, months rolled on, and poor Emmy, though surrounded hy adniircrs as of
old, felt al the misery of that deferred hope whieh ' makctli the heart sick.'

Meanwhile Louis, at the lie.id c.f liis company of .M(,ntKonicrv-s lliL-hlanders.
accompanied the force of Brigadier Korbcs, who, in September, dispalehed iron!
Raystown Colonel Boquet to a place called Loyal HenliinK, to reconnoitre the
appro,-,eh to Fort dii Quesne. The colonel's force con^i,lcd of 2000 men : of
these he dispatched in advance 500 Provincials and 400 of Jlnnti-oinerv's rcui-
ment, under Major James Grant of Uallindalloeh, whose second in eoinniand was
Uptain Charters. Despite the advice of the latter, Grant, a brave but reckless
and imprudent officer, advanced boldly lowanls Fort du Quesne with all his
pipes playing and drums beating, as it he were a|iprouclung a fricn.llv lown. Now
the Jrench ollicer who commanded in the fort was a determined feflow

The moment the soldiers of Grant were within raiiKC the French cannon opened
upon them, and under cover of this fui;, the infantry made a furicais sortie

Shng your muskets I Dirk and claymore I ' "criwl the niaior as the foe
came on. A terrible eoi,nict ensued, the Highlanders lighting with their swoitls
and daggers, and the Provincials with their lixeil bavonels ; Ihe Fjcueli gave
way, but unable to reach the fort, they dispersed ancrsought sbeller in the vast
forest which spread in every direction round it. Here thcv were johie.l Ijv a
strong body of Indians, and returning, from amid the leafy jungles and dense
foliage, they opened a murderous Bie upon Major Grant's detachment, which
had halted to refresh, when suddenly summoned to arms

A yell pierced the sky 1 It was the Indian's ivar-wh,„,p, starlling the green
leaves of that lone American forest, and waking the echoes of the distiint bills
that overlook the plain of the Alleghany ; thousands of K«l Indians, warriors,
rTi r'".!, ' "","7 "k'"'"*' 'heir streaky war-paint, jangling moccasins and
tutted feathers, naked and muscular, savage as tigers and supple as eels, with
their barbed spears, scalping-knives and tomahawks, and French muskets
burst like a living flood upon the soldiers of Uallindalloeh. The Provincials
mimediately endeavoured to form square, but were broken, brained, seaioed

f? ^ T J"'.:'' '" "' " '"■'«"*'"= "'■ '""■»^ had swept over tliein ; while, in
the old fashion of their native land, the undaunted 77th men eiideavour..d to meet
the loc. foot to foot, and hand to hand, with the broadsword, hut in vain Grant
ordered them to throw aside their kimpsacks, plaids, and coats, and betake them-
selves to the claymore, and the claymore ..idy. For three hours a desultory and
disastrous combat was maintaind-every stump and tree, every bush and rock
and stone being battled for with deadly energy and all the horr.,rs of Indian
warfare— yells, whoops, the tomahawk and the knife— were added to those of
Europe, and before the remnant of our Highlanders eltectcd an escape. Captains
MacDonald, Munro, Lieutenants Alaster, Wdliam and Robert M..ckenzic, and
Lolm Campbell were killed and scalped with many of llieir men. Ensign Alaster
Grant lost a hand by a poisoned arrow ; but of all who fell Charters most deeply
regretted Alaster Mackenzie, his friend and confidant, to save whom, after a
shot had pierced his breast, he made a desperate effort and slew three Indians by
consecutive blows ; but this succour came too late, and Mackenzie's scalp wai
torn off belore he breathed his last.

' Stand by your colours, comrades, till death I ' were his bst words. ' Fare-
well, dear Charters— we 'II meet again I '

* Again I '

u ' Y'?— »^«i— '■> bt^yen I ' he answered, and expired with his sword in his
hand, like a brave and pious soldier.

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on,!"^?.,^^',""'? Tk" l!^^ ',"?""""' """'■''• "^^^ ""'"''"' ""^ « "x^"^ massacre,

of C ;^,^. '.'.., '!!'"'',.'""■'' "^,«""» °"'' '"•" i"'"''-" "' ""'t vvikl lores

«• fn^ ",""',■ ^""^ Pn'Vinciis ivere .Icsln.yiil. Grant, with .linetien

of lii s ChnT" /" ''!'™""« ■', ^t'--''^" '" '->al HenninK, under the e..„„nand
but^Thelr escape. '"' *'"""*■■ """' "'"«>' "'^>- ""»"""-»'> -"■■'-

n-v^r'T' ^m'","'' "^'"""'""'"^h 'lifd a general in the army in 1800; but he
tJurimSr ''"■ '""•"'"/■'f/-l>"«» "t Furt du Quesnc. which was abanduned
to Ungadicr jorbcs on the 24th Novcn.ber ; by this he was depr.ved of a revenKe,

fX: d™;.'.!n'.ttt:i;^:' ^""""-^ '- '^'"' '"* ^"""'""-p- »■- «--'

Cliartcrs- re„nnent served next in General Amherst's army at Tieondcrosa

Gra^^"',; i"T ""■' "" i',"" •'•''"' Expedition, where he sav„/the life o?K„Tn

Grant-now known as Ah si cr the ()ne-ha„dc.l-by hcarinR hi,n „M the Add

when wounded; b,,t during all lh„se desuh.ry and saM«uinarv ..perati m he

ever heard frmn tnnny, nor d,d she hear from him. lie sufrered nn.ih? le

ou^'ded'in ,h Z I ""n '" ",T '•'"'f'" "'"' " "'"'''= .Idaclanent ; he' was

„T 1 r '''""'''' " ">"' ■"«'" "f '""•'■"■■^ "' Ti,-onden,t'a. and had a

narrow esc-ipc from n cannon-ball in the ilj,l,t with a French shhi when nro-

cerfms o„ the exp„lition to l).a„ini,p,e „nderN.„r,l l^,llo'^ J S?r i^^^^^^^^^^^
but though the ball spared his head, the ui„d of ,t raised a large u fl, , e spo

of he 'i'Hv,o',"Tt '"'"''"■ '":'' '■■'"• "' "■■" ""'■ '"'^ "'--I'-'t tbe conques
the Hi.* r V'p "'" " ."^^ "■'"'"■'= "' N'=»-f"»n.ll..nd with the 4,';th and

meat, o l^^™v u"T: '","' '''f/.™'' "'"' '■"""" '" " '"'™l«^'' "'i™' "■'"^vc-
nieiits ol the brave Highlanders of Montgomery.

Renewed or recruite.1 thrice from the Highland elans, the <,ld 77th covered
H.en,selves w.th glory, and of all the .Scottish corps in the King's Jerv certhere
was none from winch Ihe soldiers more noblv and rigidiv transmitted to Ihci?
bf H,'c>T, '""^"l^""} ""^ -ri"fc- "f "-ir P-r pay"or the pri.c namey gah eS
Stu-rt Ix,rl"v "I',"""""'"''- I" °»^ "f '"» (onanswered) letters to E.mny
Muart Louis s, ys, I have known some of our poor fellows, n.y dear girl, who
almost starved themselves f.ir this puqiosc' ''

Mde?"*! °' '^t "■"'"" '"^i">! I'.lled at the storming of the Mon,, his widow, in eon-
sidenaion of his great services, was permitted to sell his commission. Lt uis was
waJr'hT f •'■'""■,'""' ."" '^ ■^g'"-"" knew well that he, Imvmg onlv p™

rf whl in a'""""T'.' ^" ^ ««="">' ™^ 'X' '"^l""'' ''y the soldiers, nanj;
of whom, in America had thrown themselves before the sharp tomahawk, and
poisoned arrows of the Indians to save him, that thcv subscribed each II "h
H^v ^'"hT"''- ''"y^ P"/ '" [•"■^'"•■•so his majority ; and the plunder of the rich
WH ^^ ,h.^"™1''" """^ "r^' ^"'^ '" ^"-^ f'"")'. 'he nionev was all fairly

dn J™,'^r the most noble tribute his soldiers could p.iy to Charters, who was

?™ "tn^n l"^";?,""-' ""'"'"'f" r^ '*'"""""' "' '^''-■- York in the summer of
1768, to enjoy a little repose after the toils of the past war.

a neri^'*„7fi'"' ""'' "'^''f "'i"-=^ »" hriefly glanced at here had thus spread over
levlr^Z ^f F*'"'V.° ^"" '°"8 ""■* "■^•■"^' years-during which he had
of ?hot ,Wi Itf'IT ^'" r"""' ' "'"' """ •"= *"«' "" "=''" "' her to remind him
Th,ri ''<=''«h'f"'. ''"y^of P':.'<-c and love that had fled apparently for ever.
Wer bl'nf !, '""" ''™-,"'"-"' f'™' ^" Pi-e"y hand, had been torn from his
hnger by plunderers as he lay wounded and helpless on the ramparts of Fort

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S';;'„7h,"',°r'?"r °f f" Vu-gmiu ; her fun ™s lost when his baggage was
rent fn,m hh„ »r I""" ^"H^,^" *^''"'" ' "" '™''^' «i"' I'" hair had l«e.
,^»„ L S- . ^ ' ''°,V"'' ''''"^" !"■'«»'" and stripped bv Ihe French in tlie
af^ohrvvar '"'";'"■ "' Tf "'"'■'««' '" "PP^"^--o too ;• his hair, o nee bl„ k
thirty. His face was gaunt and wan, and bmnzcd by the Inilian son and keen
Ameriean frost His eyes, like tlie eyes of ail inured to fad, rd-th ,d dlgeT

Sdini?'' ""'' '"'■'"'■ ""^ ""'■'= '" ''""''■ "■"' l"^"' "'"1 ^Kard , UMl when
tldmgs eame, or it was nioote.1 at n.ess, tl,;,l tile war-worn reyi.nc it , Mont"
goniery was again to see the Seoltish sl,„re, poor Louis looked wis J IK ntos

and the Lhcrokees he had aeqnired sc,i„c»h,-,t th- aspeel „f a brj.ru.d

Peace was proclaimed at last, and the GoverhniL-nt mad "an 'oHcr to tlie
rcgnncnt, that sneli ollieers and men as nii^.l.t eh.H.so to settle in ?\„," ea shouU
have grants o land pro|,o,H„„c,l to tlair^rank and servi. / Tl rrc t iglt
re urn to Scotland or volunteer into other corps. A few icniain an o, " t lie
eoloinsts and on the revolt of America in 1775 were the /?«( Z t" t n e

la nTick ""/'Khland Emigrants. The rest -most of whom volunteered to jliin

cleft the waters n' II? ''f,""'' '','•' "'"' ^''""^ '''"■■'>• "^''"^ "' "'cir Shi,,

clelt t he vntcis .1 Hudson and bore thun through the .Narrows, saw the future
eaintal of the western world sink into the distance- and disappear astern
rivc years I . . . ' '

,.J„!t''T-' T'K-^" rV i^^^'^' ni"<-a">l-'«enly ! ' thought l.ouis. ' In a
■uonth from th,s tune 1 shall see her--shall hear I er voice-shall be beside her
agam, assuring her that I am the sanic Louis Charters of other days.'
tr„,^o„rr'" V v'Tl'" iT"' ""■">■• ""'' '■'•" '='»I'^"1 •'f'" *'"• sailing of the
r^Xr T 7^ "''^ """^ ''f ." ''"'y """«"' ''■'■■ ""^ Luudon and the Edinburgh
D r?,;i 1 H T 'T^'"^ ""•"'" °' "'^ ""'''"S 'ogi'n^'-'t "f Montgomery.
ei„l^lnnd° „T/'™, '"«« JT"'"-*''""' ''"'>■ "'"ths-those one thousand
noor Ion f ""J t«™ty-fl.vc- days, every one of which had been counted by

Ecllcoali'jFaircJyT' " """ *"' '''^"'""' ^""">- **"""*■ "'"' ^^ ^"" '"^

threfll^d «,nle ^fr^'7 '"^^.P"'"^'-^ "f "'osc days, whc, '.dinburgh had only
. i .u °' London seldom came north), supplied . .tolligencc she liad

on the 'Al""*"'!™' .f Mo.,tgomery-s Highlanders 'ii the Can las the States.
?^lnn^l n '"• f". '", 'i',^*"'' '"'"''■■'• '" ""^ dispatches of Brigadier Forbes, o
Colonel Boquct, Lord Rollo, and others; she had frequently seen the name of
her lover mentioned as ha^ ng distinguished himself, and twice as having been
left wounded on the field. I need not dwell on her days and nights of sickening
sorrow and suspense, which no friendship would alleviate sieKcmng

writter™™""' T '""" "^ V'"'" '""' "'■" ™<=hcd her; yet poor Louis had
ZTZr^ I V ''"'°"'' '"'^" """P' ""'' ''l°«'y fl'^Ws. from wet bivouacs,

fatal tvM,esele« """^' ^""^'\ "V",'' ™"''> "^"^ ™"'^"^= = ^"'- ''> « ^'""nge
latahly, these letters never reached her; yet Emmv, the belle, the conuette

rZreH /'""• '"V^" '""V}"- '■'""""^^ °f'""' ""■'' tl-at, unti the re2"meni
returned home and he proved false, she could not desert her lover. ^

reennVn ?' "'""R';^. »' "je Bl.->ek Watch, who had been all this time comfortably
recni,t,ng about Perth and Dunkel.l (thanks to his uncle, the Duke of Douglas).
Tl^ , J'^^T.'l''," "'f.."" ■"'"' Regiment had been more than /arty yeai^
abroad, and the battaUon of Montgomery might be quite as long away.

SCOTLAND FOR EVER

taum^"thL' T'"'" r'lT'"' "'"' '" "" "'"• ""»' 'here came no letter ; yet wl.en

• ', "nn»l, if 1 c,„,l,l ; thfsi- ll,„„g|„s w^re „.ii, :
•Itllt.,, ,i„^,r»f|„l.rniflifl,i.U.,
1 HtiM niuHt lovf him ' '

love roi i'mm. T'*'""^- ^*'">- «us "" liunest-lieurtcl fellow, and witii Ins real
her^motbe; tSS h,r1 f "''«"' ''" '"""I" '"» P^posals, «l,ile

one of the female readers, if ^he is of marri„geablc age, who is not readv to derk

r"J^";:^ZS^;^ '■•''""■ '" '"» -"'- "' *™'""-« -eS. «»ao

^fTL^'Th?.' 1 ^"?f'''"'^ ^^""^' "'"' ""^ '»"'' f"^" f^™' her hand.
„„ tnthdlt t 'f'?'. *"''." ''■"^'^"' ' '''■all not be the adorned victim offered

' On h ^> "'"l. »»'' f™n tl<at hour she resolved t.. dec^hne his addres es
of Sonttome^v" Hl»hl '* l"'" "'7 "1°'"'"'" ^""'^ ""'"«» ' "'«' the remnant

adsS ?™m N,^*V ?; "• "'t' "" '^"'"■"'"-'l »f Major Louis Charters,
f^l^h *T Ne» \ork SIX weeks ago, and were daily expeeted at Greenock
from whence that gallant corps sailed for the wars of the Far West in ITSs"

Now came Kmmy's hour of triumph, and already Louis SMmel S; her
loving, trosfng, and true; and hourly she expcctcl to ZveTnT o^^ hand
™tmg, assurance of all her heart desired; but, alas ! ttoc ro led Z-day
ted^'orM^omX™^ "'°"""' -"' "° '"""'^ ""'''' B^"- <" 'h^

fn'tXnr' """' '"' " '"'^ """ '^ '"'•'--' " "^'"^ "' o'dand f":

r^JZ'l'"'^ " sickening and painful suspense had been kept alive bv occasional
report, of pieces of wreck. w,th red eoaU and tartan fluttering aLuIXr^

WARS IN CANADA, AMERICA. AND WEST INDIES u

The Lost Reg„nent-the Highlanders of Montgomery I •

mmmmMmi

*6 SCOTLAND FOR EVER

He immediately approached Emmy, who had now partially recovered, and
gazed at him as one might giiic at a spectre, when Douglas threw himself forward
with his hand on his swonl.

' What is the meaning of all this 1 ' said Louis, who grew ashy pale, and whose
v.uee sank into Emmy's si.ul. ' Have you all forgotten me— Louis Charters of
Montgomery's Regiment ? '

' No,' replied Douglas ; ' but your presence here at such a time is most un-
feelin;^ and inopportune.'

'Unfeeling and inopportune -I— Miss Stuart— Emmy '

' Miss Sluiirt hrs just been made my wedded wife. Thus any remarks you
have to make, nr, you will please .nddrcss to me.'

Louis stn-^id as if a scorpion had stung him, and his trembling hand sought
the hilt ol nis swoid. Here the old minister addressed him kindly, imploringly,
and the guests crowded between them, but he dashed them all aside and turned
from the house, without a wonl or glance from Enuoy. Poor Emmy 1 Dismay
had frozen her, and mute despair glared in her haggard yet s ill beautiful eyes.

' Half an hour earlier and I hail sjived her and saved myself I ' exclaimed
Charters bitterly ; 'the half hour I loitered iii Strathcarn ! ' for he had halted there
to refresh his weary soldiers.

And now to explain the sudden rcappcarjmce.

Tempest-tost and under jurymnsts, after long beating against adverse winds,
the transport, with the remnant of his rcgimcjit, had been driven to 87 and 40
degrees of north latitude, and was stRmdcd on the small isles of Corvo ami Flores,
two of the most western and detached of the Azores. There they had been
lingering among the Portuguese for seven months, unknown to and unheard of
by our Government; and it was not until Charters, leaving Alastcr Grant in
command at Corvo, bad visited Angra, the capital of the island, and urged the
necessity of having his soldiers transmitted home, that he procured a ship at
Ponta del Gadn, the largest town of these islands, and sailing with the still reduced
remnant of his corps- for many had perished with the foundered transport— he
landed at Greenock, from whence he was onlered at onee to join the 2nd bat-
talion of the Black Watch, into which his soldiers had volunteered, and which,
by a strange fatality, was quartered in Perth— the home of his Enmiy, and the
place where for live long years he had garnered up his thoughts and dearest hopes.

The reader may imagine the emotions of our poor Emmy on finding that her
lover lived, and that her heart was thus cnielly wrenelicd away from all it had
trtasnred and cherished for years. Then, as if to r.,7Travate her sorrow, our battalion
marched next day for foreign service, and Ixiui. again eniliarkcd for America, the
!.n«l of his toil, without relentless fate allowing Eiuniy to excuse or explain herself.

Douglas left the corps and took his wife to Paris, where he fell in a duel with
a Jacobite refugee.

Emmy lived to be a very old woman, but she never smiled again.

Thus were two fiuid hearts separatee! for ever.

Three months aft^..- l,ouis landed in Antcriea, he died of a broken heart say
some ; of the marsh lever say others. Uc was then on the march with a detach-
ment of ours up the Mississippi, a king route of 1500 miles, to take possession of
Fort Charters in the Illinois. His friend, a Captain Grant— Alaster the One-
handed— pti formed the last ofliees for him, and saw him rolled in a blanket and
buried at the foot of a cotton tree, where the muskets of the Black Watch made
the echoes of the vast prairie ring as they poured three farewell vollevs over the
last home of a brave but lonely heart.

From Ujiriiji •if'thf black Wtitth.

WARS IN CANADA, AMERICA, AND WEST INDIES 47

THE DUCHESS OF GORDON AS A RECRUITER

HER COMPANY IN THE FRASER HIGHLANDERS

By y. M.Bulloch

Everybody of cuiirse knows the legend of the Duchess of Gordon's kiss. I
nnticipute thiit it will ultimately tiike rank with other pretty fairy tales ; but
even when it does, there will reiimin the fiict that she took a K>"t-'ut interest in
the raising of the Gordon Ilijihljiiulers in 17tt4. TImt pic'tiireh(|uc iichievcnient
was undertaken mainly on behulf of her son, the hundsonie lluntly. Hut nearly
twenty years before tlmt she Irnd iiccompllshed u similar tusk fur her brother,
Captain Hamilton Maxwell, whom she presented with a company fur the Fraser
Highlanders. By a curious coincidence. Hamilton died in the very year when
she was engaged with the Gordons.

The Fraser Highlanders were raised by Simon Frnser, Master of L4iVttt, and
eldest S4m of the Lord Lovat who was executwi. After passinji thn)Ugh the
period of attainder, he entered the army, and in 1730 raised the Fraser High-
landers, afterwards numbered as the 78th, and rcprescntctl to-day in a round-
about way by the sect>nd battalion of the Seaforths. The Fraser Highlanders
were disbanded in 1763. In 177.J Fraser raised another regiment, ruimbered the
71st, which, like its predecessor, did good work in America. It was for this corps
that the Duchess rniseti a company.

The task which the Duchess set herself was by no means easy, and she encoun-
tered many disap|N)intments. Despite her husband's jH)Wcr as a great landli>rd,
she met with small success among the Maephcrsons, to take but one class of
teiuint, with suflirient Highland bJiKHl in them to be not averse fn)m soldiering
as an art. The Uev. Uobert Macpherson, Aberardcr, writing on April fl, 1778,
says that ' no person appeared in the country fur Captain Maxwell, to take upon
him the horrid drudgery of <lrinking whysky and to act the recruiting sergeant
among the people. Hesidcs, the few remaining sparks of clanship had by that
time been kindled into flame, which with their sympathy for the Clunie's mis-
fortunes made them enlist with their chieftain in preference to all mankind.
Uut the fit did not last long.'

Her Grace had also the mortification of encountering rivals. Thus a certain
David Mackny, wlu) had been enlisted at Grantown market, was not attested,
' l)eing carried off by a son of Gulloway's.' A party spent three davs looking
for him (at a cost of £18). He finally lisUd with Ensign Grant.

The men were largely nuscd at markets, pi|)crs and tinimmcrs being used to
attract them. The most active recruits were Sergeant IVtcr ThonistMi ; David
Tiillnch, who f^ot a shilling a day anil a guinea a recruit ; J. Stewart ; and Peter
Wilkie. The accounts, which with the nmster ml! are in the hands of the Duke
of Itichmond, who has kindly lent them me for cxjuiiinatimi, contain such items
as the following : —
By cash to a piper to Glass mercatt ......

To William Hamilt<)n. piper, employed from Dec. 7, 1775 to Feb, 17,

1770, at a shilliiitja dav .'

For Diik to him ..."

For a kilt for him .........

To extraordinnry drink at Elgin market .....

To the recruits to drink upon the Duchess's setting out to London,
Feb. I'J, 177«

£0 7

l«

SCOTLAND FOR EVER

GralTuttnu. mfrXfJV' ' '''•^ ^'^ »"""« f-m Kei.h to lUt with her

To II yanls tartan
1 I blue bonnet .
, IS yards yellow ribbon
. ♦ yards tartan for a philabeg
. i yanis tartan for hose
♦ pairs garters .
J dozen yellow buttoni
IZ yards tartan for a plaid .
X pair sli.K! and knee buckles

£1

1 10
7 10

T 4

18
2

lnanntheraceountweflndasumof£11 «• a.l „.: i r . ^ .

m»n),„„HX12!K8, W in^„S,l"nee'fr,t'v ^7'^'"" ''""' '"• «''■ '» ^« P"
At l„,t the quo rwi" eln ete 89 men in 1'"}^' "' II"' *° "'"■''• ""■ '"«■
Captain M.ixwe I and la forLie,;.' Vrl su ' "/"''""■ ^' «"•: ^r I.er brother,
the' ,l„ke's nrst eou" in Onlv two „the'89l''„'K7"''^ f''" ''■''''' ^■"""' ""^
(67 stron,) marehed fro™ FiehX^' ^^ Veb^ary 26 ma "under* f"'"'' •""]
of Sergennt Peter Thomson, and two davs latVr »h. n„ I " ."■ "•""""■''l

Roll, wl,i,.|, is now at Gordon Castll '" '"^"'"' ""= ""'""

T4th^t7nVent*'^^tt:TirlXtrhat?hrrtt""7" ""r"'''-"'-'' "■■=
the Highland r.i«ht InSy wWe the "'^i '^^ -'t' ""'''''"''''''" "^

have be..n Maxwdl's eoSlonJ-'h the 74th that feTh" h""."." ""• ," '"">'
fourth Duke of (;„rd„n, to enlist si, men for M„.- t ^1? '>,"'""■'-"'•""«'. the
T4th in 1787, us r..llows :- P'"'" ^wysden's company of the

Dec.

Aft.

lU
24
20
SO
17

Hatcbt.

S ft. 4 in.
3 ft. 9 in.
3 ft. a in.
S ft. Si in.
S ft. 4} in.

SO 5 ft. 11 in.

ij 3

5 S

3 8

8 8

3 5

^°^' ..t^wn" """'•"". l""''"-. -Spevmouth .
„ 19 -William .Mitchell
„ 20--Hu!jh Gordon . . ' '

„ 20 -.Folm Ilonniman .

27-IIu(;h Ellis . . ' ■

3— Serseant Alexander Sutherlanil ;

attested, but supposed absent . . m o it ii m

bur^r!;!';r::i:;-:j'lf';t';r:^;;!;?'i^!^rciwS'^ ^\ "%--

a stone commcm(,r.ited him. England, Oldtown, Cuddalore, where

virtues, this raonun.ent is erected by the olltee« of tl^ 74th. ""'' """">■

WARS IN CANADA, AMERICA. AND WEST INDIES 40

VII

TALES OF THE PIPERS

the a,«ik„l,„p<,„,edry from l^TmunHTl, ''<•'?"»""> briRndr, oh,irK«)

fln. offlce,, Ih. Cs^ l)I"„u Pack and full! 2ir,'" i^'.^T'T""''"' ^> "»'
they hud alway, held irT th^ n^htl L """"'?'"«" "•« h'dh «t«li"n which

woundcl wa» I^,rG«me Clark theLrrJl^'Jh """' r"".'?' *"■""« '^'-"

and ™J?; ttmV/thnuCL";n"fh!f ",; "« ""•'T' 'o -"'"'l to th. woMndM

pipts wa»^plinted ^ th^ promise wn, not forgotten, and a handsome pair of
^^e.arresErth'^ir'lSLTa"^ 2^.^"'""'"" ^ '"""'""^ ^ "«

Yjlj from rV tfri/i#A Afe«i«.,

IN THE GARB OF OLD GAUL
By Lieut.-Gm. Sir Henry Erskine, hart,
the Scots Greys in 1762

In the Rarb of old (;aul. with the Brc of ol,i Home
from the heath-covered nnmntains of Scolia «e come ;
"here the Honians endeavoured our countrv to eain
But our ancestors fought, and they fought not in vain.

Such our love of liberty, ™r country and <mr laws.
^Ind drfy the French, u/rt all their arts, to alter our laai

>] Alva, tvho commanded

so SCOTLAND FOR EVER

N<i rffcminnti* ciistomN our tiincw^ unbrace.

Nit liixiirti)U-» (hIi)i's ntiTviitc mir rucr,

Our liui'l-souiulin^ pi|i<' Uus \hv true martial itrain,

Sn ilo \vc tlic oUi Sfiillisli valour rttuin.

As n storm in the cM'tan wiu*n Hurras blows,
So nrc- wf cnni^'t'ii wbi-n we rush on our fm-n,
W'v voris of the mountains, trtnirndous as rm-ks,
Dnsli the (iinv ul' our fot-n with our thundrnnfj ithot-ks.

Wv 'rv tall us thr onk on thv mount of the vale,
And swift us the roc whirli the liounil lUilli asNiul,
As the full nuHin in aiitunni our shiihts do a|>|>t'ar,
Miiit'i'vu would tlii-ad to cncountiT our spi-ur.

Quebec and Ciipc Briton, the pride of old France,
In tlifir troops fondly boasted till we did advance ;
Hut when our cluymorcs they suw us prmluee
Their eoura^e tlid fail, and they surd for a truce.

In our realm may the fury of faction lonft cease,

May our counsels be wise and our commerce increase.

And in Scotia's cold climate may cai-h of u§ find

That our friends still prove true and our beauties prove kind.

Thru ne 11 (Irfi-nd our liberty, our country and our laxca.
And tt-nrh our late pintttrity f" f'uht in Freedom's cause.
That they like our at>ccitlor« l-ohLJor honour and applause.
May defy the French, icilk all their artt, to alter our laws.

THE ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS AT MARTINIQUE (1793)
By Richard Cannon

TiiK French Uoyalists of Martinique sent pressing applications for assistjince, and
Miijor-dciuTal ilrucc, eornnmudint; the liritish trtM>ps in the West Indies, was
induced to pn>ceed with u sniiill I'oree to their aid. The 2Ist were employed
on this service ; they lauded at Caisc de Navirc on the 1-lth of June (171*3), and
other enrps lauded cm the Uitli, and eleven hundreil Hrilish and tinht huutlred
French Loyalists advuneed to attack the town i>f St. Pierre : but the Koyalists
were nndi .eiplined ; they K"* '"'o emdusiou, fired by mistake on one another, and
MM'oinplelely disconcerted the jilan of attack, that the Knulish general, not having
a force sudieiently numeiims for the purpose without them, ordered the Uritisli
troops to return "u J>oard of the fleet.

lientiai Sir Charles (afterwards Earl) Grey assendilcd a Uxly of tnnips at
Barbadoes in .laTiuary I7!'t fur the attack of the French islands, and the flank
companies of the '-'Ist were employed on this service. A landiuii was effecte<l on
the island of Mirtiniipie in the early part of Fei»ruary, and after some sharp fight-
ing, in wliieh the r< u'inient had several men killed and wounded, this valuable
possession was dcliv* red from the power of the republicans.

Krom Ifi'torirtil Uncord o/'ihr 21'' Rftiimmt, nr
The Hoyat Sorth Brilith tntilirr*.

WARS IN CANADA, AMERICA, AND WEST INDIES 51

HOW THE BLACK WATCH GOT THEIR RED FEAT!IEK
By Archibald Forbes

* On January 1, ITO.Ti,' wi wri <'*■ . ulrew [D<>wit'|, while a |«'nsi(iiit<i vrtcraii,
'our urniy, conniHtinK of the Vinu, <Mtli, KOtli, anil llllh, ilmvr tlit- Fruitli ii^Min
■cro»!i the Wual ; tjic i2ntl rt-tircil tu ((uiKlmnalMn, alM>ut Ihtu- \\\\\,\ to llic
rrnr. The Frcnrh or<>sNi-d a Mceoiul titnc, and uttm-knl tlic 7Hth in mir |1'JimI|
front; the llth I.iill Dragoons tcivrrinn the 7Hth with two j.iiics of mntmn.
The French In'in^ \.. lUperior in niinilH-pi, prcvsed the 7Kth m» luinl tl.nt th»y
were obh^ei) to ^iv ua\ ; the ravo'ry aNo nivinjj way, leiivinu their ^■llrl-■. whu i|
the enrmy turned n\'im us. In the affair (ieneral Sir Hnhert I.nwrie |I.awriii
received a wvere r I'l on the rlj:ht clieek, ami was alnti); with Sir David Diindu
when he call'M ')ut, Fort} •.See<>n<l ! for Gel's .sake, nnd for the honour o|' your
CDuntry, rtt-i^r W.ry^- jjinisl " Two eoin|ianies were si-nt out whieh were r(|iiil>.rd ;
other two eniniiJinitH wi re then sert out ami succeeded in ri<ii|'tuiiiii,' Un ni with

great loss |i<i the \\'
enmimny m the alistm
GenerafSii i)i.-id Hui
never wear tin r-'l pti.
carry it so lon„' vs tin
these words. When xvt

nfl,]. I

ir-it. .^ ir.ii-s Jonntlinu FruMT <<tTnniiuiil((l our
.(I Au?.truther. Hn the jju'is luinjf !)roii^!lit it».

rnlli-d out. " Fort) SreiMid, the llfh Drac - *.|.i.II

on their h< lini ts any more, and I liope the 4'Jnd uill
e IliL H'iick \Vatch ! I heard Sir Dasid [(rononnee
ivtd iti K-.sex 've (jot the red heekh-.*

From Thr Hlu<k \Vut<h.

THE HIGHLANDER'S SENSE OF DUTY
By J. H, Stocqueler

ArrF.H the surrender of Loni C'ornwalh. s aiuiy In Aim ■, ;!ii.- 'y\. »' larehed

ill dilaehnierds as prisoners to differeit (> rts of Vif ■,>. \i'.^>- : '■ ' ' with

many of their emigrant eountrymcii, h\- whotri, as un ■ ; t'l. > ■• ; .-very

endeavour was usetl, and iiwny teniptirif; offers made, I ; ' > <■ •'>■-. ': ' rs to
break their alleRiani-e and become subjects of the A ■ T'. t. t. ■ ■. . ' Yet

not a siiif^le Hiyldandcr allowed hiniMif to be seihi'id i •.' llii ■ ■'.• n •.• We
duty which he had engaged to ili < har^' lor Ids kinji iinil en;.- ^

When it was known in Sulheil.ind (in 1793. on tlie lireiikiii n > if Ihc war
with revolutionary France) that i1k; eonntess was expected lo Ciiji i' .tli a ])tiilion
of the most abic-bodidl men on her <\leiisive estates, the otiieers wJicui vlie
apiw'lnted had cuily to make a bcledion of tliose who were bc^t eideulattd It. lijl
up the ranks of the rcfjinicnr, whii'h was comjilcted in as short a lime a^ tin- mt u
could !« collected fnun the nipped ami distant districts they iid'Mbiled. For
five years after the rejjinient luni been furuicil lujt an individti;d in it coTninittcd a
eriiiie of any kind. DnriiiR the rebellion in Ireland, in 17t»71)8, ' their CMnduet
and nianricrs so softened the horrors of war tliat they were not a week in any
fresh qxittftcr or caidoiunent without cotieiliatinj,' and l>econnn{5 intimate willi
the people.' In 1800 the regiment had Iwen nineteen years without n pnnisli-
nient panide.

General Stewart, in his aeeounl tif the Hi^thlandcr;, says truly ; ' The sense
of duly is not extinfjuished in Ibe Hipldainl soldier by ahseiiee fr«.m the rnoini-
tains. It accompanies him amid the dissipations of a inwie i>( life to whieh be
has not been accustomed. It pron)i>ts him to save n portion of bis pay to enable

SCOTLAND FOR EVER

him to assist his parents, and also to work when he has an opportunity, that he
SZ^^1^Z h'™"'"^" ^' once preserving himself f,Sm idle habfs and
contributmg to the happiness and comfort of those who gave him birth. Filial

Jound'^S '\hlr? "f"""'" "J."' "" ««'"°"''". -d it ^ generally ^'e„
luffilnf Vh^ I '"f"n'V>« theii- parents of „useo„duct has operate as a

of homr.^ °" ^"""^ ■ "''" "'""y" "^'™ ""^ ""imation with a sort

inm The BrilUh HtMirr.

XII

HOME FROM THE WARS
By Robert Bums

I AM a son of Mars, who have been in many wars,

Anil show my cuts and scars wherever I come •'
llus licre was for a wench, and that other in a trench

When welcouung the French at the sound of the drum.

My ■prenticcship I passed wliere my leader breathed his last
« iK-n the bloody die was cast on t.Sc heights of Abram • ■

I served out my trade when the gallant game was played
And the Moru ' low was laid at the sound of the drum.

I lastly was with Curtis among the lloating batteries =
Ami left there for a witness an arm and a limb •
"t', , ' .'"y '^"""''y n<^<!d me, with Elliot < to bleed me,
I d clutter on my stumps at the sou,- .f the drum.

What though with hoary locks I must sUnd the winter shocks
Beneath llic woikIs and rocks oftentimes for a home

Uhcn the t other bag I sell, and the t'other bottle tell
J could meet a troop of hell at the sound of the drum.

The Jotiy Btgj/itr^,
XIII

THE KING'S OWN BORDERERS AT MARTINIQUE (1809)
By Captain R. T. Higgm

In the month of December 1808 the two Bank companies of the 2Sth regiment

eornmanded by Captam Sinclair, embarked on board the Cherub sloop of- wKm

Gumea Bay Osland „f St. Kitts), and proceeded to Pigeon Island Ik"etdi"

Xh^"mf T^ '^"'"'",11"' six weeks when it again em"barked, on the even ng of

he ™^ , ■'"rT'T- "■ "'V^'-S* "■' ^"'^'"'^ f""^'"' ""'' join"! the lleet for
the capture of Martmiquc. The fleet was divided, like the amy, into two divT

ofThe 8,h"'i:rT;'.; °' '^r,rF l""""" "' ^'^'" •'""'*• ""■' ">» other. conLt ng
Bal ! n n; ^\ r i "'■ •" "^^f ?""P""'" "f the 25th regiment, at Solomon'?
«a> , on 1 1„. 81st „f Januar>-. The light company joined the army near Windmill

', i'l'",.'"'"'.'!'''' '" ''""' "' y"'!*'-, "'■«"■ "'iilfB fell n-m)

, f •"«'". [■•'••'■'•I'. »l.icli »«. .turn,,..! ,„d taken l.y tlio ilriliih. 17r,'

* 111 cjninisiiij at (Jibrajur ijuriii([ the Kiegc.

WARS IN CANADA, AMERICA, AND WEST INDIES 88

Hill, where it was engaged, and where Captain Sinclair and Privates Ducksbury
and Hoiragan were killed.

Thisactiunwasfoiight on the 2nd of February 1800. The grenadier company
joined the Light Brigade, commanded by Mujor-Genernl Campbell of the York
Rangers. He, however, was wounded, when the command was given to Major
Parson of the 28rd Fusiliers, which regiment occupied a position in a wood near
Fort Bourbon. This brigade, which consisted of the flank company of the 2Sth
and aard regiment, and two bhick companies, crossed the country, and stormed
a French picket under the walls of Beaulieu Redoubt. This picket, which con-
sisted of one captain, two lieutenants, and eighty privates, were all killed or
wounded, with the exception of four or five sentineU who made their escape.
Captain M'Donald of the grenadiers led his company up to the gate, where he was
challenged by two French sentinels, who were instantly shot. The brigade nishcd
into the place, and took the post under a heavy fire from Fort Bourbon ; but as it
was night the shots passctl over the heads of the men, doing little or no damage.
On the 19th of February the British batteries opened a heavy fire, which was kept
up both day and night, on Fort Bourbon. On the 24th of February 1809 the fort
and all the dependencies of the island surrendered.

From Reritriin ni tht Kinti'/i Oini fhrltrrrt.

CHAPTER IV

Napoleon in Egypt

1801-1H07

'I'HI' KIX(J-.s OWN SCOTTISH BORDEkEKS

The Sloiy of the Regiment.

tlie

nro .,,,,,,,„, l,,.i,.,M,,,,,,..M,l,la.,,,,.,l.,,,i,s,:,;i,.,,r..

Kilii. <T;itlkl. , lOSiJ.

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.Slrnikirl,. Kwa.
I.an.liM. liilia.
Naiiliir, lC'J,->.
f;.l>i.ilLii, 1-J-.
i-'iiitiilrrs, 17 l;f-7.
l'"MMtiiii,y, I7t,>.
U illcniix, 174U.
ViJ, 17+7.
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MiikUii. I75;i,
Wail, 111;;, 17(iil.
KiA Diik, ni, |7(]|.

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-Maitiniqiir, ISOO.

(iuailalonik-, I815.

Niilal. IN (2.

Af;,'liunisUiIi, 187H-80.
Gitnaziili. 1HH9.
I'llitral. 1NU3,
Tiruli. tS97-8.
•Siailli Arrica. I.SIIU-HKIJ
PiianI, U-rj;, 190«.
Kanr S[)niit, t!)()0.
Vlukfuntiin, 1901.

THE LANDING IN KCJYPr

By y. II. Siocqiicler

ABorKiu liAV l,,al Lc'cu rnulcml famous in „„„lcr„ liistu.v l,v N.Nmis vic'lorv „l'

NAPOLEON IN LGYPT 55

• It woulil be Hifflcult,' wrilps the l.icKraphrr ,.r AI,<■rL•r,.llll,^, • u, c.i.oriM. a
situation of deeper or tliirker inlcrest lliaii llial i„ wl.id, 1 1„. ;„K in,,.,' ,,r 1 1,,. Uni i.l,

army was now place<l. The imn sit eict aiul „i,,ll,,„|, ,. ■ ,„,| „ ^ i „.,,^ |„, ,,,"

except the splash of the oars In the water. wliMi- thi' 1,,'n.. Ihi,- ,,f |„,.,k iii,\ li
rapidly but in miniirabie ami ex,iet array l..war,l^ llie sla.re. N.,1 \,.m: ii<.wev,r
was that stern silence permitted t.) coMlniiie luil.n.kin. A, if ilou'hliiu, |h,'
evi. enee of their own senses, the enemy ^micI r,.r a whiU-, «ill,„„l ..riirj,,., i,, fl,e
frail armada the sli(;htcst molestation ; hot Iheir „sl..n,,|,„a.|,i m.oii iiive nl lee
to other and more stiiiii,^. seMllMienls. „m,I lliev st,.,xl lo Ih.i. arms. In ,'i molni „l
he whole of their arlilkry opened, an,l Ihe sea hissnl and l.„ilc,l l,,r„r.- and
belnild the boats Will, r,a,n,l shot an.l slalls that fell in show,.rs ai„,„„l tla,,. '
Ihe seamen palled ,M,-tlic fire increase,! ^-Ihe easnalties hcianu. maiKn.i.s
■-H,l LZ ""^,"" '■"'"■"-i""- '-Viid MOW Ihe reKi.nenl. on Ihe ri„hl -lia' alni;
-8t 1, 4011,, ami tand -havmii j;.,ined a pl.av of shelter maler Ihe el,vM,-,l i„,mI,..i,
,il Ihe hallenes, w,re iiiipell,,l „iiw,,r,ls «i|h iner,as,w| anii.ar ai .1 ,,i,i'n '

hoon the l„«,ls l,a,ehe,l Ihe s:ii,d; Ihe s..l,l„.,, |ea|„,| „„|, r,,n,„,i i,^. i;,,.,',-.,;

nn,l, 1,1 the face of a heavy Ihe, s,i,v,l,|y j;ain,Hl the snnnn.l, a,„l, ,1, ,i„„ „ai;

their stern ,.,.|«,nenls, drove th,„, „all.,„|ly from Iheir |..,sil „p ll„. |",co of

h..sl,.,p. IhecoM,!,,,-! ortl,e4'J,al ll,n|,|, ,rsh, Ihi, op,rali,,n «„s ,„ ,.„|i;„.|v

brillianl. ).wn ean.e a r,,,„„c„l „1 K,, ,.,i, ,:,v,,hy , ,1 ,l.,s l.,al,.„ 1. ',1, |,v ,1, .
4-lKl. an,l lis connnaialer fell. To lli,. 1, 11 „f llie Inn Ih. lioval., ,';illi -.„„] '-,slli
were ,„inK tiaar w,ak «,ll, e,|Mal a,.],,,,,.. I„,,ii„. „„■ en.,,,; „l all ,„.„,l., ' ri,<'

trench rclivaled >,po„ Al,-xa,„liia ; AI,er,o,i„l,v losi i„.l „ ' „„,,| i„ |, || ,„i,„.

them. l(„l he f,„„„l them sl,„n,,|y p„sl,,l, wiu, ,, v ,,a.,, of arlill.,> ;.„,l a

niach lar„,.r lorec ihai, he e.vp,ele,l. S,„„- ,l„;s weir ,,,„,s„p„„U> , .v|,.:,„l,.,| in

getti,,); i,p reinlorcemenlsand lan.li,,. t„„s I,- Il„. ships, whi,-!,, „„h Ihe tr„„s-

port ol the linns ahan; Ih,' s.iialv sl„.r,., was a li,li,ns ,,i,e,-,r. „ It w,s Ihe
21st Marili before .Sir Kalph f,am,l hio.self i„ a <„n.lili.,„ l„ „ive Ihen, hallie, and
the.i. mneh 1„ the v, .lerahle i;ei,en,rs ,l,lif,.|,f . the e,„-i„v l,„0, Ihe i„ili„tivc

ARreal.j;lorimis,an,l,l,,-isivel,alllewasll,al ,,r Al,.v'„,d,ia, Th. ,i„a,.„iati,a,
Blows alal the heart is slirr,-,l while rea,li„« of |h,. tenihl,- alla,.k ..{ Il„~|.-i,„eh
iMvmcil.les on the ri(;hl of the Ikilisl, posili,,,,. It was ,hf,,„h,l |.v a i„l„„ht
and cover was f.amd behinil some ruins. The i.Timenls cn>.„c,,l w, ,e Ihe 4-„d

the 28th, and (he 4mli. The lli,.hla,„lers w,,,- p,.e,.harK ',1, jee ..fUa:

.ndcMT.habl.v f„r„ais allaek. The Fr,„,-i, Invme.hks. ali,,- n,„eh obstinate
haii,l-to-han,l hahtmi;, were almost annihilald ; Ihe survivors lai,! ,lown llair
onus. .,-,.sh haltalaa,,, however, eamc op ; the 42n,l .,:, ^-reallv ie,l,„,.,l. I,„l
tliev held their cr.>oi„l. aaimale,! by Ihe appeal of Iheir Rcerai, ■ .Mv brav,

HiK danders, remember yonr ntry I rei„e,„ber your f,lhers ! ■ Down weal

ebattal,,,,,s,,ftl,e,.u.i,,y; thc,,r,,d,e,l,,ns.p,,,dr,,ns,,reavalrv.i ,■ ialaoli, ,

till the w_l„,le spai'c 11, Iront ol the r,,l,a,l,l was strewed with the bo.liesof the .slain,
ine 42lld dial almost to a man where il sl,ii„l.

foxn Till- Itrilhh .v V/„-,-.

THE CAMERONIANS AND 'IIIE GORDONS Al' ALEV

ANDKIA
By David Stewart

On the moriunB of the 131h the troop, moved forwaol lo Ihe all.„k in tluce
columns, the 00th ,a IV.Ihd.ire re-iment formin-. tl„- aiha,.,, of Ihe lasl
column, and the 92nd or Gordon Highlanders that of the secon,l ; I hi reserve

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SCOTLAND FOR EVER

with It. \yiien the umy h.id cleared the dutetrees, the ciieiny quitti-d the
he.jihts, and w,th gre.t boldnes,, ,„ov„l down „n .he Mn.l. whieh bTtl 's tU,,e
^';i:"r'^„.""'''-. T'- French ,,pe„e<l „ heavy iire of c.n„„n ,u>d'n!u"ketr •

which the naiid qiiii-kly returned, liiiniy re»i»tiiii(
French line (supported n,i it ■

their ground till the line can
th.

cjtniion and musketry,
repeated attacks of the

was Ijy a |x,wcrliil artillery), and siii^-ly inaiiitainint!
ne up. Al the same time the French cavalry, with

Iry, with
iinent, Tlii

e greatest impetuosity, charged dnwn a declivity on the »Oth reai
S "^U^!"? "If 7'"'''f ,"|f'<^l'i'l''y. ""owed then, to approach within lUty

™^a 7ew ; *l ""•f"-''"^'^^'"' l^<^' 'I'^T ■'■ completely hroke the charge, that
the rest lied off to their kit, and retreateil in Hie ureatesl confusion Tl„. .mil
regmient heing dresseii in helmets, as a corps of ligiit ini , t ;, we e nisUkeiM
dismounted cavalry, a.id the enemy, iielieving Ihem out of tlie^i; eleinei, , . , k
with the more iH.ldness, a, they expected less resislalice.

the rMit"''fln,'u''"''The''''T 'i""""' '"■"-■;.""' "r"^ remaining in column to cover
ine right tl,.nk. 1 he whole moved lorwanl in this order, sufrcring IV,,m the
enemy s Hymg artillery, whieh, liaving six horses to ea,-l, gun, exe?u ed tl eir
movements with the greatest celerity Awhile the Uri.ish, with , n y I, | v

appomled cava ry and no artillery horses, had their guns dragg^ In sa C-
occasumally assisted by the soldiers, through sands so l,t,se and S deep tl^ the

enemv Zld T '"'%": ' "' '""" ^''''- *»■ '"' "«= .novenicnls 'were, tte
enemy could offer no effectual rcsislaiuc, as our troops advanced, and retreated
Hi, ilJ't r "■ %'"' "' Alexandria. These hues Sir' llal,,h Abeienmiby dete^
«^^e „;r-, '^'1 r*-'';,'"'''''',' ""» ""l-rt""' "l^icot, Ueneral Moore, with the
^^hl^WT ir^ 'm ■" ,"'r ""'"• ""'' "'•'"•■■"' H'"^'hi'-n will, the second line
.^™,si f„ a,^ 1 r1i '"" """'■V'"-:^ " ""■ «'""■■ »■"'■'"■> ">e formidable and

k ,m „* "J'P'""'"-;^ "' ^'"^ •^"""■y '^ defences, this seemed a In.ld attempt. Not
thr^'^W f '■;'"' ■r'"'.""'»' "■• "l"^">". "'■'" iKung suecessivelv gained,
they could be maintained without proper artillery, if the one eomiManded th^
o her, our commander found it necessary to reconnoitre with care. In tlii' .,t ite
havt^Rh, th."'j: "' 'rn """"^ excec^lingly f„,m a g.dling fire, withou
eiKd al "' "■^'P'™':'- '" ■•=""■" «,"'"". while the French had leisure t.. take
^m»r^^'„ 1 'l"'''' '""""""" "" ""'"Pi'lily .-'"-l discipline of the British
ZZ T ?tZ- ,*"'*-7 "' "''''""'■"' ■"" 'c-tiained till It could he done with
success and with the east loss of lives, they remained for hours exposed lo a fire

eulties';if .1 "m t ""= ^"'"""' "'■ ""= ''<'-^' "■""!«• '" I-"'''!-"!' ""' •lim-

ner mtlh 1 "Pt*"""*: "'s'li-niounlable, they were order«l to retire, and

occupy that position which was afterwanls so well maintaind on the 21st of
March, and in wliicf they avengei themselves for their present disa,,poiiit,ncnf.

I'ntm .sAW.Am ofthr Wifli/'in/tfui.
IV

THE BLACK WATCH AT ALEXANDRIA
By T. Walsh

h'lV""M ' i'.;™""„"'™l'' ■"' ""^"k "" 'lie eenlie. cxtendin,; as far towards the
kit as I.e Oind. ll attempted t., turn the kit .,f the brigade of Guanis, which
was a little advanccl. but was received with so warm and well kept up a lire
Irom the Srd regnnent of Guards, whose left was thrown back, and frlmi lllc
Knyals, as to be forced, after a sharp contest, to retr<-at with great loss.

Ueneral Deshn, with his division, penetrated through the hollow, leaving the

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NAPOLEON IN EGYPT , S7

redoubt on his left, and endeavoured to reach the old nihis. He was, there
warmly received by the 42nd, and at tempted to withdraw his troops; but a
battalion of the twenty-first demi-brij;;ide having advanced loo far, was sur-
rounded, and obliged to lay down its amis, and surrender to tlie 42]iil and 68th
regiments.

Repulsed at every quarter with the same obstinate resolution, and llmling it
impossible to penetrate through any part of our line, the French intintry at length
gave way, and departed in all directions behind the sandhills. . . .

The 8rd and 14th Dragoons, under General Boussart, came up with all the
impetuous fury of men certain of being sncrifteed, nnd charged through the
12nd regiment, reaching as far as the tents. Here, Imwcver, they were effeolu-
ally stopped ; the horses, entanglcil in the ooids, were for the most part killed,
and many of the men were obliged to seek their safety on fcnit. At this
juncture the Minorca regiment came to support the 42nd, and drew up in the
vacant space between the redoubt and the Guards. The seci.nil line of Freiu li
cavalry . . . made another desperate charge u|K)n these i-eginients. As il
would have been impossible to willistund the shock, they opened with tlie
most deliberate composure to let them pass; then, facing al».ijl. Iliev pourisl
upon them such volleys as brought nundicrs, both of men mid horses, to the
ground. The cavalry then endeavoured to force its way l)!u'k, but this they
were unable Ui etteet, and the greater part were killed or wuunded in the attempt.
General Roye himself falling on the s|>ot. ... In the ei.rlv part of the acti..ii .i
standard had been wrested from the French by the I'.'iid regiment, wliiil. was,
however, unfortunately retaken fn.m thcni at the moment of the im|Ktnous
charge of the enemy's cavalry.

The French infantry . . . lost a great number of loin . , , nnd when IIm-
broken remains of the cavalry formed again in tlie rear of their infiintrv. not
one-fourth of those who had cliarged could be colleelid.

THE DEATH OF ABERCROMDY
(I) By H.R.Clinton

Hi.ioiui dawn on the I'lst .M.irih, .Miin.ii sent hisdronieilaij corps iieioss liie bed
of L:ike Mareotis; the Frciuh surprised the first redoubt, but hail to retreat,
carrying oft the guanl. This attack was but a feint, the real attack being on the
British right by Laimsse, and on the centre by liumpon, with Uonipier in reserve,
tlie cavalry under lloiigi beinj,' placed in a second line to act as neisled. , , ,

Liinus.se went forwunl ,s.. early that the tnstps oppos4-(i to him were not drawn
ofl by the false attack against the left. His men forceil their way into Ihi- Uoiii.in
rum. which liiiil l>een transfonueil into a reih'ulit. The 28th ami 5»th regmients
mamtaine«l a desperate rcsistanee, and the arrival of the 28nl and the 42iicl,
«i' I the ,teady fire IV.. lu .Mailh.ud's vessels, bn.ke the encni\. and one regi-
ment I, lid di'wii it> arms in the ruins. Kampon's attempt ori the centre was
rcpuLseil l)v till- V, iieys of the Guards, and while Kegmer and Friaiit were
et«ieav.iuruig I., li.ui a passage tielweeii the centre and the left. Kongo's horse
ao-»aneed undi^ an imperative order froiii Menon, nlthi.ogh without ii.fanlrv or
ea-slry supp.irt. The lirsl line of dragoi.us, iindi r Bnaissanl, n«le f.nvard
with great spiril on a hopeless enteriirise. Da,sliiiig tlinaigh the teiiis of llu:
28th, they overwhelmed the 4'.'nd ; but as the dragoons were entangled among the
tents, the 48th threw them into disorder, Ala-ren.uibv, siu.t in the thigO but

W SCOTLAND FOR EVER

still in the saddle, dismounted and took part in the mfiWe. Just as the 42nd
re-foiroed and a reinforoement came up, Hougi charged with the second lint.
n*f>eatmg the manoeuvre so succestful at Dcttingcn. the British infantry opencti
ti ;ir ranks and let the enemy pass through to the rear, and, again closing, pourct!
in volleys which stretched men and hurses on the lod. Regnicr and Friant,
themselves under a heavy fire, were unable to render assistance ; and Menon
ordered a retreat 'it ten o'clock, further ntUcks being hopeless. It was fortunate
for the British, as the umniunltion of both artillery and inftintrv was so exhausted
that several batteries and regiments were unable to interfere with the retreat.
But the four shipit kept up a sharp cannonade.

Abercrornby, more fortunate than Wolfe, viewed from a redoubt in the centre
the retreat of tbr ' ^ten foe. Being now unable to mount his horse, he was
carried on a httfi m the beach and convpyo«i to the flagship. The ball couW
not be cxtractt . .(.rn the thigh-btme ; the wound mortifiwl. i.iiH on the 28lh
he expired, to i i- threat sorrow of his amiy.

From I'amoii» Hrituh Haltlu.

(2) Ballad from an old Chap Book

RECITATION

'TwAS on the spot, in authentic lore oft nani'd,
Where Isis or Osiris once held sway
O'er kings who sleep in Fyriiniidic pride ;
But now for British valour far more fum'd,
Since Nelson's band achieved a glorious day.
And crown'd with laurel, Abercronibie died.

Her roseat colours the day Iwd not shed

O'er the field which stem slaughter had tinted loo red.

Twas dark stive each flash at the cannon's hoarse sound,

When the brave Abercrombie received his death wouml.

His comrades with grief unaffected deplore,

Tho' to Britain's renown he gave one laurel more.

With a mind unsubdued si ill the foe he defy'd.
On the steed which the Hero of Acre supplied,
'Till feeling he soon to Fate's command must yield.
He gave Sidney the sword he no longer could wield,
His comnides with grief unaffected deplore,
Tho' to Brittiiu's renown he gave one laurel more.

The standard of Albion with victory crown'd

Waved over his head, as he sunk on the ground.

' Take me hence, my brave comrades,' the veteran did cry,

■ My duty 's ct^tnplcte, and contented I die.'

(3) By T. Walsh

h fiiust have been at this periiMl that the gallant veteran. Sir Ralph Abercrornby,
rieeived the unfortunate wovmd which deprived the army of a distinguished and
beloved commander. It is imjxissible to ascertain the exact moment, as he never
compiaiiied, or revealed the circumstance of his being wounded to any one, till

NAPOLEON IN EGYPT it)

it wu perceived by those about him. No entreat^ could even then presiil on
him to leave the field, till convinced by his own eyes of the enemy'i retreat. . . .

When Sir Ralph Abeicninihy had seen the enemy retreat, be atUnipted to
get on horseback j but his wound, which wa» probed and dreaed in the field by
an auistant •urgeon of the Guards, havinn brcurnc extremely stiH and puiciful.
he could not moiut, and reluctantly suffered himself to be placed u|>..ji ii litter.
from which he was remi>ved into a boat, and carried on board the Fotukuyanl.
Here Lord Keith received him with all possible aflection, and every cart and
attention which his state required were early paid him. . . .

(March tht 29(A.) This niiirnini! arrived the melancholy tidinRs of Sir Ralph
Abercromby's decease. At eleven the preceding night death smitched from ua
this beloved commander. Th^! wound which he received on the 2Kt, bringing
on fever and mortification, occusioiicd this lamented event, and our valiant
general was lost to us at the moment when we stixid most in need of his assist-
ance. The ball had entered the thigh very high up, and, taking a direction toward!
the groin, had lodged in the bone, whence it could not be extracteu.

In the action of the Itth of Mareh he had suffered a contusion in the thigh
from a musquet ball, and had a horse killed under him. On the Slst, at the time
when he received his death wound, he was in the very midst of the enemy, and
personally engaged with an officer of dragoons, who was at that moment shot by
a corporal of the 42nd. Sir Ralph retained the olllcer'i sword, which had passad
between his arm and his side the instant before the officer fell.

During the seven days which elapsed from the period of his being wounded
till his death, the anguish and torture he endured must have been extreme. Yet
not a groan, not a complaint escaped his lips, and he continued to the last a bright
example of patience and fortitude. He thought and talked of nothing else to all
around hun, but of the bravery and heroic conduct of the army, which he said he
could not sufficiently admire.

THE HIGHLANDER'S RETURN
By David Macbeth Moir (Delta)

YouNO Donald Bane, the gallant I'tli, unt,. the wars h.T<l gone.
And left within her Highland home his plighted love alone ;
Yet though the waves between them rolled on eastern Kgypt's sh-
As he thought of Mhairi Macintyrc, his love grew more and mcrf.

It was a sullen morning when he breathed his last adieu.
And down the glen, above his men, ^he chieftain's banner ilt-w ;
When bonnets waved aloft in air, and wir-pipes seream'd aloud.
And the startled eagle left the cliff for shelter in the cloud.

Brave Donald Bane, at duty's call, hath sought a foreign strand.
And Donald Bane amio the slain hath stood with crimson brand ;
And when the Alexandrian beach with Gallic blood was dvcd.
Streamed the tartan plaid of Donald Bane at Abereromby'ssidr.

And he had seen the Pyramids, Grand Cairn, and the bay
Of Aboukir, whereon the fleet of gallant Nelson lay ;
And he bad seen the Turkish hosts in their barbarian pride.
And listen'd as from burial fields the midnight chacal cried.

•0 SCOTLAND FOR EVER

Yet, many s light had DomUd seen in Syrian dmerts lone,
Tu many a ihore had Dunald been, but none that matched hii own ;
Amid the datei and [MmegranAtet, the temples and the tower*.
He thought of Albyn'a cliffy huti. begirt with heather-flow rr».

So joyous beat the soldier's heart a^in from deck to see,

Rising from out the German wave, the island of the free ;

And stately was his step when crowds, with plaudits from tlte main,

Welcomed once more to Britain's shore its heroes back again.

HuiHJicd was the war din that in wrath from coast to coast hud roared.
And stayed were slaughter's beagle fangs, and sheathed the pntriut's

sword.
When— 'twas the pleasant summer-time — arose in green unnm.
His own dear Highland mountains on the sight of Donald Hani-.

Four years had lapsed in absence, wherein his steps had ranged
'Mid many a far and foreign scene, but his heart was unestronged ;
And when he saw Arjjyie's red deer once more from thicket llee,
And again he trod Glen Etive's sod. a mountaineer was he t

There stood the stiieling of his love beneath the sheltering trees.
Sweet sang the lark, the uummer air was musical with bees :
And when he reached the wicket porch, old Sttimah fawning fain.
First nosed him round, then licked his hand —'twas bliss tu Donald Bane.

His heart throbbed as he entered— no sound was stirring there —
And in he went, and on he went, when behold his Mhairi fair 1
Before her stood the household wheel, unniurmurous, and the thread
Slill in her fingers lay, as when its tenuous twine she led.

He stood and gazed, a man half-crazed : before him she rechned
In half unkerchiefd lovehness — the idol of his mind ;
Bland was the sleep of innocence, as to her dreams were given
Elysian walks with him she loved, amid the bowers of Heaven I

He gazed her l>eauties o'er and o'er— her shining auburn hair.
Her ivory brow, her rosebud mouth, her cheek carnation fair ;
Her round white arms, her bosom's charms, that, with her brratliing low
Like swan pluinss on a ripply lake heaved softly to and fro.

He could no morr— but, stooping down, he clasped her to his soul.
And from the honey of her lips a rapturous kiss he stole :
As hill-deer bound from bugle sound, 8wer\-ed Mhairi from her rest,
It could not be — oh yes, 'tis he I — and she sank on Donald's hn-ust.

What boots to telJ what them befell ? — or how, in bridal mirth,
Blithe feet did bound to music's sound, beside the mountain hearth.
Or how the festal cup was drained on hillside and on plain.
To the healths of lovely Mhairi, and her faithful Donald Bane.

NAPOLEON IN EGYPT

THE MAJOR'S STORY
By James Grant

' Wi are a fine rcgiuieat a» oiiy in the line ; but I alniiist think we were b hnr r
coipi when we landed in Kgypt in 1801. We had been embodied among the clan
of GorUoo juat itz yran before, and there was icarcf ly a man in the rankn abtive
flve-aod -twenty yean of n^v —all ticry young Highlanders, raited among the
men of Blair-Athuir, Brat mar, Strnthdun. Garioch. Strathbogic, and the duke'i
uwo people, the * gay and the gallant,' ai they were hlyled in the olden time.

'There ii a story current that the corpK was raised in contiequence of itome
wager between the Duchess of Gordon and the Prince of Wales, about who wimid
muster a rt-giment in leajit time; and, certainly, htr grace got the Htart of liik
Royal Highness.

* The duchess (hire \ to licr health— a splendid woman she is 1) sujierinUndetl
the recruiting department in famous styk — one worthy Camilla hcrhclf ! With
a drum and fife — oftencr with a srure of pipers strutting before her- cockades
flaunting and claymores gleaming, I have seen her paraihng through the High-
land fair* and cattle- trysts, recruiting for the * Gordon Highlanders ' ; and a
hearty kiu on the cheek she gave to every mun who took from hi-r o'.vn white
hand the shilling in King George's name.

'Hundreds of picked mountaineers — regular dirk and claymore men—hhe
brought us; and prtrscntcd the battalion with their colours at Abcnlci.'n, where
we were fully mustered and ecpiippcd. Trotting her horse, she CHine along (he
line, wearing a red regimental jacket with yellow facings, and a Highland bonnet
with an eagle's wing in it : a hearty cheer we gave hrr as she came prancing
along with the staff. I attracted her attention first, for ! was senior kub. of the
grenadiers, and the grenadiers were ulwnys her favourites. I would tell you
what she said to me, too. atwut the length of my legs, but it ill becomiii a man
to repeat compliments.

* Right proud I wti» of old Scotland and the corps, while I l(M>kcd along the
st-rried Une when we drew up our battle-front on the sandy beach of the buy of
Aboukir. Splendid they 0|')>eared — the glaring sun shining on their plaids and
plumes and lines of burnished arms. Gallant is the garb of old (ilaul, thought 1,
and who would not l>e a soldier ? Yes, I felt the true esprit <k corps burning
within me at the sight of our Scottish blades, and equally proud, as a Briton, at
the apf>earance of other cori)s, F.riglish or Irish, as they mustered on the beach
beneath St. George's cross or the harp of old Krin. The tri-colours and bayonets
of France were in our front, and the moment was a pn ud one indetd, as we
advanced towards them, animateil by the hearty British cheers from our men-
of-war in the bay. All know the battle of Alexandria. We drove the soldiers of
Buonaparte before us ' like chaff before the wind,' but the victory cost u» dear :
many a bold heart dyed the hot sand with its gallant blood, and among thcni our
countryman, noble old Abereromby.

* Poor Sir Ralph I When struck by the death-shot I saw him reel in hit
saddle, his silver hair and faded unifonn dabbled with his bt(K>d. His lust words
are yet ringing in my ears, as, waving his thrce-cf)cked hat, he fell from his horse ;

* " Give them the bayonets, my boys t Forward, Highlanders I Remember
the hearts and the hills we have left behind us 1 "

' Here 's his memory in Malitga, though I would ruther drtnk it in Ulay or
Glentivet. We did give them the bayonet, and the pike too, in a style that wouM

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have ilone your hearts good to luive seen. It wus a glorious victory— Vimiera.
tlie other day, was nothiiiK to it— and Bell worth losing blood for. That night
we hoisted the union on the old Arab towers of Aboukir, and Lord Hutchinson
took command of the army. On the 18th September 1801, we placed Alcxandri.i
in the power of the Turks. Our wounded we stowed away in the mosques and
empty houses ; our troops were quartered on the inhabitants, or placed under
canvas without the city walls, and we found ourselves while there tolerably com-
fortable, except mg the annoyance we suffered from insects and enervating heat,
which was like that of a furnace ; but the kamsin, or " hot wind of the desert,"
one must experience to know what it really is.

■ When it begins to blow, the air feels perpetually like a blast rushing from a hot
fire, and the atmosphere undergoes a change sufflcient to strike even the heart of
a hon with tenvjr.

' Canieron— I mean Fassifern— and 1 lived together in the same tent, which
was pitched without the city, in a spot where enormous ruins encn.sted with salt-
petre were piled on every ide. 1 well remember drawing back the triangular
door of the tent, and looking cautiously forth when the winds had passed. Here
and there I saw the prostrate corpses of some Turks and Egyptians, who had been
sufti.ciitcd by inhaling the hot sandy air. Thcv presented a terrible spectacle,
cert.Tinly. They were swelled enormously, tunied to a pale blue colour; and
there they lay, rapidly festering and decomposing in the heat of the sun, although
they had been alive and well tliat morning.

' By it I nearly lost Jock Pcntland, my servant. I discovered the poor
ehield lying, half dead, at the base of Cleopatra's Needle, and had him looked to
in time to save his life. Many of our men were dangerouslv affected by it ; but
when it passed away all was right again, and I remember how pleased Fassifern
and 1 were, when, for the first time after we sallied forth on our drily visit to
our friend Mohamme<l Djedda, a Turkish captain, with whom we had become
acquainted in the course of garrison duty, and who had a very handsome house
of his own within the walls of Alexandria.

' Cameron and I had become close comrades, then being only a couple of Jovial
subs. He was senior, and has got in advance of me ; but since he has obtained
command of the corps, he keeps us all at the staffs end, and acts the Highland
chief on too extended a scale. Yet Jock (we called him Jock then, for shortness ;
but It would be mutiny to do so now) is a fine fellow and a brave officer, and I
pledge him heartily in Senor Uaphael's sherry. . . .

' Well, major, but the mummies ; you have not told us of them vet,' said
Ronald, becoming impatient.

■ I am coming to the point,' replied the major, not in the least displeased at
the intemiption, abnipt though it was ; ' but you must permit me to tell a story
in my own rambling way. To continue :

'The redoubtable captain, Mohammed Djedda, had become a very great
fhend of ours : we used to visit him daily in the cool part of the evening, pre-
tending that we came to enjoy a pipe of opium with him, under the huge nopal
or cochineal tree, which flourished before his door. He knew no English, I very
little Turkish, Cameron none at all ; consequently our conversation was never
very spirited or interesting, and we have sat, for four consecutive hours, pulling
assiduously, or pretending to do so, at our long pipes, without uttering a syllable,
staring hard at each other the while with a gravity truly Oriental, until we
scarcely knew whether our heads or heels were uppermost. We took great
credit to ourselves for never laughing outright at the strange figure of the Captain
Ujedda, as he sat opposite to us, squatted on a rich carpet, and garbed in his

NAPOLEON IN EGYPT

Rilken vest, gcwii, wide cotton pantaloons, and heavy turlmn, lnoking like Ultic
Hennl in the story-l)ook. Ygu may wonder wliut pleasure «e ioumi in this sort
ol" work, but the secret was this : Mohanmitd wii: one of the nint.t fashionable
old backs in tlie Turkish txrvice, and of course could nut 'lo witliuut four wives —
no Turk of any pretension'- to rank being without fi'at number. These he
kept in most excellent ortlcr and constant attendance u|ion his own la/.y (lerson,
altfaouph he had a score ()f wretchctl slaves— poor bare footed devils who wore
noui,'ht to hide Iheir brown skins but a blue shirt girt about their waists with a
leather belt, and a rrd kercliiet twisU-d round their crfiwns.

* But Mohainrneii's veiled and draprried spouj-.s were the gentlest creatures
I ever beheld, and not in the Itiist jealous, beeaii-.e lie entertained lor tlitin all
the same degree of cool contempt ; and he oltcn told ls. ' that women were
mere animals, without souls, and only j;ood for breeding chililren and mischief.'
One brought his pipe and lit it, a second ^|iread liis i'arpet under tlie nopal, a
third arranged his turban, and a fourth put on his slippers ; but lie wo .Id scorn
to thank any with a glance, and kept his round eyes obstinately lixed on tlic
ground, as became a Turk and s^iperior I- -ing. This strange old genlUman had
two daughters ; [)erf(et angels they weie- -scrafths or honri. We eoutd not see
their faces, all of which, with the exception of the eyes, were coneiakd by an
abominable cloth veil, which it was almost iiu'urriiig deatli to remove before
such an infidel as me. But their eyes ! By h* avens, surh were never beheld,
not even in the land of the sunny lyes — su large and black, so liquid and spark-
hng I No otiier parts were vitible cxcejit their Jiands and ankles, which were
bare and white, small and beautiful enough to turn the heads of a whole ret^'iment !
The expression of their lustrous eyes, the goddess-like outline of their thiidy clad
forms, made Cameron and me imagine their faces to be posstssrd of that sublime
degree of dazzling beauty which it is seldoni the lot of mortals to — —'

* Excellent, major I ' exclaimed Allster ; 'of all your l'';^'yptian stories this
is the best. Then it was the daughters you went to see ? '

* .'o be sure it was ! and for the pleasure of beholding them, endured every
evening the staring and smoking with their ferocious old dog of a papa, who,
could he have divined what the tvto giaours were afler, would soon have employed
some of Iiis followers to deprive us of our heads. 1 am sure, by the pleased ami
melting expression of their eyes, that the girls knew what we came about, and
we would certainly iiave opened a correspondence witli them by some means,
could we have done so ; but as they were kept almost continually under lock
and key, we never found an opportunity to see them alone, and letters — if we
could have written them — would have been useless, as they could neither read
nor write a word of any known language.

' Well, as I related before, on the evening after the blowing of the kamsin,
Fassifem and I departed on our daily visit, eagerly hoping that we might have
an opportunity of seeing Zela anil Azri, the two daughters, alone, as we marched
the next day en route for that great city of the genii and the fairies. Grand Cairo,
and might never again be at Alexandria. We were confoundedly smitten, I
assure you, thougli we have (iften laughed at it since. We were as niuch in love
as two very romantic young subalterns coulil be, and very earnest — Iioping,
fearing, trembling, and all that — we were in the matter.'

* Well, major, and which was your flame ? '

* Zela was mine. They named her " tlie White Rose of Sidrali," whicli means,
I believe, " the wonderful tree of Maiiomet's paradise." But to continue—

'On approaching the house, we found it all deserted and silent. The carpet
and pipe lay under the shadow of the umbrageous nopal, but the grave and portly

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Kr ;es wh re ^1 nr'i"^ T, """' "'"''' "'"""", "" ""'^' "' Aowcr-bcds and little
fr,Mln„ -i L^ r ■ r,' • ""= P'"'"»"-'"'"'<^. 'late-pahu, eustard-apple, and fig-
who M ,,,? '"•''""^'" >■; '"^r"%""^,' I'y "W "f Mohanimed's half^naked slavol

1,. M^, T^ ~'n-' ">,'?*■ i^ ' "'"""^ ''"'■" " '"tl= "f W» K"""'"! language
^-t lull to Capta,,, DjcUla, l„s fo„r wiv< ., :,i. ^lavt,, and all !,is h,mseh„ld we?c
gone o the groat mo.,que, to return thanks lor the passing away of the kamnZ
abou 't„ ,„ rn''"''^ much uvereome by th. heat of the atmosphere, we were
bout t„ ,„ter he eool marble vestibule of the mansion, when the airy figures
of the young lad.es, ,n their noatinn drap.ry. appeared at an upper window.

and the Z,"' ""'"V '" ' " n" "' '■'''''^"''•'■"- •■ 'i'l-f young ladies arc upstairs
and the house is empty ; we will pay then, a visit now in safetv."

' " Th, ■ .r' " " ' "';^'^™r'' '■'^'"'■"^ '" ""■ meantime with all his Mamelukes ? -
Then there ,s nothing for it but eutting our way out and escaping We
But i ' i^'otTX;,""'' ""•:,''"t ".™''l b<^ f-^'-tten in the hun,. of our 'departure!
liut IS not death the penalty of being found in the chambers of TurUsli women ? "
will sear^eell'Trv ■" • """i '■ ''iresing my shoulders ; - Su' my old Mohammed
o near YonT '"P"'!"'"'" '" "" "^ "' 'lecapitatioii while our own troops are

?reraimo:;tthri.iii ••""""* °' "-= ^^-^ "■■"■"*' '"» -'- -^ «- «--

-.J^^^V'i'^ '' "'^"''y; f^olin ' " «»k«l he, as we wandered about the vestibule
rCfs. "' "" '"'''''"''' '^""""""'"l by «Pl"'>M vases Ulled with gorgeous

' " U)) this staircase, I think."

of theiHangnage/" ''"" "" ^ '° '"^ """-'" ""= ""' *'"'"' ' ' ''""^^ "<" « ^^1

' •' Tush I never mind that, Jock ; do as I do," said I, as we ascended the white

marble steps leading to the upper story, .-md passed through several apartm"nt,^

mak,„rtL" wtr'i; "'""''■.V" "i.lil that moment had I thought seriously o

^tL Hnt, ' ^°T i^'l^'i'. *'■■''• ^''^''" C'^nV'^ll ol Craigflanteoch ^
,,h: I ," ,'"","'■' "f ""^ Eg.vptian inte attracted us towards the kiosk

t heavv ^r' %'"" 1°"'™'; "■"" '""' ■'■'' "' <"• ""^ oJvcnture. We rSsel
tte heavy folds of the glossy damask curtain, ami found ourselves, for the first
time, m their presence unobserved by others.

' The two graceful creatures, who were as usual eloselv veiled, sprang from the
ottomans on which they were sealed, and came hastily t'owards us exclair L in
surprise mmg ed with fear and pleasure, " Ma .ha Allah! f" mZ^ckyaAl^"
and a score of such phrases as the tumult of their minds caused them tful fr

Aalam aim kom, said Fassifern, meaning " good morrow " which was all

the progress he had made in the Oriental languages and" e dTf ed our boni e?

making a salaam in the most graceful manner ^ ' " "= """™ °"' bonnets,

' •• Colin tell them to take off their confounded veils," whispered Cameron.

I a.ske,l them to do so in the most high-flown style imaginable, but thcv

sereamed out another volley of exclamations, and fled awav to the farther corner

audMv'n t"^ • ^",7,"" T' " '""'"'''' "^ ''""'"y- "hile I f<^lt my hcarrbea "ng
audibly as I surveyed the soft expression of pleasure that beamed in their orient
eyes. They were evidently delighted at the novelty of our visit, though the^r
pleasure was tmged with a dash of dread when they thought of their other's
return and the boundless fury of a Turkish vengennee. Ztia placed her little

hole/inhervTil'V 'r'f '^' ""'' '°,'*'"' ^'^"'''-"y "' - through the rinnd
holes in her veil, burst into a merry shout of laughter.

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„.,"' Hciiuliful Z.:la," siiid I, as I threw my arms around her, " Wliite H..se of
otdrah, Ht what do you laii^-h ? "

• "You have no beanl ! " said she, lauching louder. " Where is the bushy
luur that hangs from the chin of a man ? "

• •' I haven't got any yet," I answered in English, considerably put out bv
the question ; but I was only a sub., you know, and had never even thou-ht of
a razor ; my chin was almost us smooth as her own, and so she said as she passed
her soft little hand over it. Again I attempted to remove the veil which hid her

ace, but so great was her terror, so extcssive her agitation, that I desisted for a
time. But between caressing and entreating, in a few minutes we ci>nquercd
their scruples and OrienUil idais of punctilio, when we were permitted to n-move
thtu- lawn-hoods, and view their pure ami sublime fcatuics, with the heavy
masses of long black and glossy hair falling over naked necks and shoulders,
which were whiter than Parian marble. Tliey were indeetl luiraculousl' autiful,
aiKl lully realised our most romantic and excited ideas of their l.'.iK-hidden
loveliness.

'I had just obtained some half-dozen kisses from the dewy little mouth of
/Scia, when I saw Cameron start up and draw his sword.

"' What is the matter, Fassifern 1 " I exclnimcd ; but the appalling and
portly hgure ol Mohammed Djedda, as he stood in the doonvay, swelling with rage
Olid Eastern ferocity, was a sulTicicnt answer. In his right hand he held his drawn
sabre ol keen Damascus steel, and in the other a long brass Turkish pistol. Crowd-
mg t.he marble stau-case beyond, we saw his ferocious Mameluke soldiers, clad
m theu- crimson benisim or long robes of cotton, and tall kouacki or cvlindria.1
yellow turbans, while their spears, poniards, and scimitars— short, crooked, and of
fJamascus steel— flashed and glittered in a manner very unpleasant to behold,
llie poor girls, horrified beyond description at being discovered in the society of
inen, of Christians, and unveiled too, were so much overcome by their terrors
that they were unable to fly ; and calling on the bride of .M.ihoniet in I'ariulise
d'L'th''"' "' ^"'"''""^'' ""''' °"""' f™"'K lly nnd ffuJly, expecting instant

' " Here he devil of a mess, Cameron," said I, drawing out Andrea. " Let
us leap the window and fly for camp."

But their caibincs tlu-ow a dozen balls at once," was his hurried reply
Shoulder to shoulder, Jock I now for the onset," said I, preparing to inist.
recklessly upon them. " We must take our chance of "

• The rest was cut short by a slash the old savage made at me with his scimitar,
which took three inches off the oak stick I cut at home in the green woods of
Inveraray, before I left them to follow the drum. My blooil began to boil.

Moliammed Djedda," said I in Turkish, " we have done no wrong ,- we are
strangers among you, and kiiow not the laws of the land. Allow us to depart in
peace ; otheiTvise you may have good reason to repent," I added, pointing to the
tents of the auld forty-twa."

' ■' Depart in peace, said you 1 Despicable giaour 1 " thundered he, his
i urkish tone becoming more guttural bv his ferocity. " Never-never I Bv
the sacred stone of Mecca I— by every hair in the beard of the holy prophet 1-^-
by the infernal bridge which spans the sea of fire I slave of an accursed race ve
never shall I Never 1 I have sworn it."

' I saw Cameron's eyes flash and glare as he prepared to sell his life as dearly
as possible. ^

■ 1" ''^t^" °™ ^'"' '"'■ ''' °'^ '"*° '• »'"' remember, should we fall, our friends
m the white tents will avenge us."

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fr..n. l.„ whit, tison. wLfch'l ^wZ/vf^riart''^'';',''''^'.?'';:''' '•"""'"«
de,-,lb-sh„t. The tliick muslin turb.n ?,f M h , '"'Y' *'"»'' ""'"n'! the

tren,en,lous blow which I den a 1, ,^wlf "'"'"' ',"''"} '''"' ^""^ "•= o.,e
beneath the wei,.bt „f the claymore * ''"""''• '"" '"= ^''"'' '" "-e e.-vr.b

i^.n,;:er'!l jii,!;':t.;.;!';;;;± ":y"''''"' ■" "-^ 'r'" ' •■ ^-""i '- -•■"riai,.!

a terrible Wow ™ t' le ,aek "f '.nvtVf '"''"r' ' "'" ™"<l"i«l'e'l : I reeeiv,,!
ren.ember no .nore Ln ^,,, /"L rllr™' "V^''"" """'" "' " """"luk'- I
.l.ird_th,.„«h the likeV^:';u;eltr;:'a„d"«tpe" '"■" *" '"^ ''^"•- "'" "

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or »n,e monstrou, ve^L Ln^ .2 over me e^ 7'"' ,«'?8"4«1 Wood. R.!-:
»nd endeavour to di.cZr Z^ I wa, Thl? Pe ."'J "" '"Pi'""; ">' «"""''■

left at the n.eroy of the law es^S amS eithertri" h"*" ^"' T' } ''"'"''^ *"
a dur,?con to be left to a slow UiioerinTrfri; f ! ' ■"' P'T^'™' <»?''« in

one by some mode of tortT^ 3b *^ ,h '''' ''"'J"''™' o"- " ""^re expeditious
and bLbarism ™dd Lve^r' ' "" "'"'' "^'^ 'P'"' of EasterlTiLelty

f..n;':rr"3 bt^rdoToToTtitirH il'' " ^*™'7''"' "'"* ' f«" -«■

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a smal^apertL whi^b a ^^rS^'Xlrty^^f at^X"™™'"'^ "-"""■
Dawn has broken I I exelaimed in sudden anguish , " the t.oops must

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l".'rl]Jh"''''"l i 'i'^"'"?" ™""<'' h-'vi. csraped Jlohanimci : .t, „I,. n,v C;,..i ■

outsi^o „f th. ,,nnihl '""'' '"'"r" ' "o" I'""ivc.l caned a„d pam.ed on 11.,
Bnt. I » I, .h "^ ^ ni"rnmy-oof.cr». TI.ey were tlie flKur.s „f the dt-ad, and
tinted With those impcrishahle eol„urs with which the ancient Kgyptians ,leco ml ■

oZ„ wh .?""* ''"'^ " ";<• '"■"■ ' "■">• <•'"'' ™"'". winkinR, go Jii,ran,
me Inmizi^ at 1'" "^"^ """i'l''. ''•>l«™'" »nd red, expanded ,nto a broad gnn.
methuught at my misery. Against the black wall tiiev were ranked at em,„:

tne cirth, exposing the decayed and mouldered corse, standino stark naunt

nro,t'rate'ar"'1-»f''"*' '" "" ^"™'^"'»- O"-- ''«'' f""'" 'l™ "nT^v
Sf t e saerT^i* ' T'" ''°"*'' "'"8- I >^"i'|.ose, the embalind remain,

01 the sacred ibis, the monkey, or other animal revered by the ancient idoiaten
Enormo,,, bats were sailing about, black scorpions, and^^ nuiny a uge b ol?^l
reptile, ot which I knew not even the name, appearing a:-, if formed alone fo suel

sou^rr;„'rh'"' "^y" "" ';?"""^' " f'^" '"'*' "'«' 'hen with a hea "sq^abb
sound from the wet slimy wall on the moist and watery pavement. '

of an arch «r-' f ' ''"'«?','"« "'""«'' ''•'"'* '"^'"'"^ » J™"' '" "'^ ''"S'^c

o mvM I It^JnT • ■" ''^ .T-'Vr^ '"■'"'^'' «'"'«' t° breaking when I thought
of Mu) and o?M°'"' ""'^ ^''?,' 'T" "''''='' «"■* '" away-the^rcen mountain,
of Mul and of Morvcn, and the deep salt lochs of Argyle ; and ,!earcr than all
he well.taown hearth where I had sat at the knee of mv mother, and h a^d her
rehear e those w,ld traditions of hill and valley which cndeare.l them all „ me

ot old Moham^S "^ °' ""■ '"t' '"""" '■'^P-^'^'^ ' " "'^"i "-■ K'-'t""' voice
hLJ M<''i™nied or some one above me; while the cranny overhead became

SbT • " H.V /th"""";''"* f '"','■ 'T"-" "■'♦•' ""■ ^1^'"" "f "-"P-^. became
Hen„ . f .1, n"**"^,"/ P"'' ""'' drinkers of wine-have the unclean docs
departed from the walls ot I.kandrieh ? " I listened in breathless suspense ^

pn towIidT thl^A Z^^^lf^ '^f y"^' """••' «""'"■"' voire ot a Mameluke ; " thev
wolt3ittenf''H h- i"'"^' 'l'^^- K""^ '" "'e sand, that the jackal knd the
won may latten and howl over their bones ' "

reolic/^r^/!'"'' n'"ri ^V! '" '^•"'' """^ Mahomet is His holy prophet I "
neonl h»H ^ ^ liL, 'f '''*' T,^"'' '"^' '"-"rt died within me to hear that our
PnfiH f f ^P";'^ f""" Alexandria. These were some of the ungrateful

ihet'id'saU w^,^hTb1;::J*,'''"- ■"" "• '"""^ «»"-' '"'"""- """ -'"-«'
see'whlt'l.Tr hii"* ^Vf ""is follower ot Isauri," said Mohammed, "and he will
himTro™ ,h. i P/,?? J'*' "' "" *''u ''''"«'"■'' "nd mollahs of his faith, can preserve
for th??»eW»U " ""i ^^J," 'r™ 'I" '''all die. Ere night liis carcass shall be food
H^di^ Vt,^Hlh * """]^ 'u" ""''eliever looks his last on the bright setting sun,
but wr«.ffi' -^l »'"*r *" ■ • • ^^bat word he finisi cd wilh I know not
but It was sufficient to strike terror to the inmost recess of my heart, I knew
well some temWe instniment of torture was named.

and luiew'th^SJ'T™''*""" '',"' I f" "?' ''^'™''e, when I found death so near,
but mvLt^n .f « P°^."^<^'^- defenceless, and unarmed, liaving no other weapon
the e?/ f "• ■"*"?• ?'"'"8'' *" '"y- I bad never relinquished. I beheld

the claw of an iron crowbar inserted in the cranny which admitted light, for the

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purpose of raising the stoue trap-door of the catacomb ; and as the space opened,
I saw, or imagined 1 saw, the wcai>ons of Mohammed's followers flashing in thi-
sunlight. My life, never so dear or of such inestimable value as at that moment
when 1 found myself about to lose it — to be saerificed like a poor mouse in a
trap, I cast around a furious glance of eagerness and despair. A small round
archway wliich I had not before observed met my eye ; yawning and black it
appeared in the gloom, and supported by clumsy, short Egj'ptian pillars. 1 flew
towards it, as novels say, animated by the most tumultuous hopes and fears,
praying to Heaven thot it might afford mt scnnc chance of escape from the
scimitars of the savage Mahometans, who had already raised the trap-htone,
and lowered a long ladder into the vault.

' The passage was long but straight, and guided by a distant light, glimmering
at the other end, I sped along it w'th the fleetness of a roebuck, receiving as I
wtiit many a hard knock from the bold carvings and knobby projections of the
short dumpy pillars that formed a colonnade on each side. I heard the sabres
and iron maces of the Mameluke warriors clatter, as succf .vely five or six of
them leaped into the vault, and set up the wild shout of " Ya Allah! " when
they found I was not there. By their not immediately searching the passage,
I concluded that they were unacquainted with the geography of the place, and,
in consequence of their having come from the strong glare of the sun, were unable
t(p perceive the arch in the gloom of the cavern. They became terrified on finding
that I was gone, and withdrew, scampering up the ladder with the utmost pre-
cipitation, attributing, I suppose, my escape to supernatural means.

' I kept myself close between the twisted columns, scarcely daring to breathe
until they had withdrawn and all was quiet, when again I pursued my way towards
the glimmering light, which was still in view, but at what distance before me I
could form no idea. Sometimes it appeared close at hand, sometimes a mile off,
dancing before me like a will-o'-the-wisp. My progress was often embarrassed
by prostrate columns, ami oftencr by heaps of fallen masonry. More than once
I was ni'uily suffocated by the foid air of the damp vaults, or the dust and mortar
among wliich I sometimes fell. But I struggled onward manfully, yet feeling a
sort of sullen and reckless despair, putting up the while many a pious prayer
and ejaculation, strangely mingled with many an earnest curse in Gaelic on
Mohammed Djedda and the architect who planned the labyrinth, though perhaps
it might have been the •"•.■o.t Cnidian Sostrates himself. After toiling thus for
some time, until wearied iuid worn out, I found myself in the lower vault of one
of those large round towers which are so numerous among the ancient and ruinous
fortifications of Alexandria. A round and shattered aperture, about ten feet
from the floor, admitted the jjure breeze, which I inhalvj greedily, while my
eyes gloated on the clear blue sky ; and I felt more exquisite delight in doing "o
tiian even when gazing en the pure snowy bosom of the beautiful Zcla, whom,
to tell the truth, I had almost forgotten during the quandary in which I found
nvyself. The cry of " Jedger Allah .' " shouted close beside the ruinous tower,
informed me I was near the post of a Mussulman sentinel, and compelled me tc
aet with greater caution. I heard the cry (^ hich answers to our " All 's well t ")
taken Up by other sentinels at intervals and Jie away among the windings of the
walls.

* By the assisttince of a large stone I was enabled to reach the aperture, throngh
which I looked cautiously, to reconnoitre the ground. It was a glorious evening,
and the dazzling blaze of the red sun, as it verged towards the west, was shed
on the still, glassy sea, where the white sails of armed xebecs, galleys, and British
bhips of war were reflected downwards in the bosom of the ample harbour.

NAPOLEON IN EGYPT fi .

Appearing in bold light or shadow, as the sun poured its strong lustre upi-n thnu,
I >«iiw the long line:* of mouldering buttletnents— the round diunes, the taper
spires and obelisks whi'h rose above the enibraKures, where the sabre-: and laiiees
of the Turks gave back the light of the setting sun, whose farewell niys were
beaming on the pillar of Diocletian and the grey old towers uf Abouklr, from the
summit of which were now waving the red colours of Mahomet. But the beauty
of the scenery had no charms for the drowsy Moslem (whose cry I hud heanl, ami
whom I now pcrcciveil to be a cavalry vedette) stationed under the ctmiI shad v
of a palm grove close by. He was seated on a carpet, with his legs folded under
him. His sabre atul dagger lay near him, drawn, and he srt without moving a
muscle, smoking with grave assiduity, and wearing his tall yellow kouak very
much over his right eye, which led me to suppose that he was a smart fellow
among the Mamelukes — perceiving, to my great chagrin, that he was one of
Mohammed's savage troop. His noble Arab horse, with its arching neck and
glittering eyes, stood motionless beside him, its bridle trailing on tlic ground,
white it gazed with a sagacious look on the columns of smoke which at times curlcfl
upwards from the moustached mouth of its master, who was staring fixedly in un
opposite direction to the city. I followed the point to which he turned hi>- round
^'lassy eye, and beheld, to my inexpressible joy, an English infantry regiment —
Hutchinson's rear-guard — halted under a grove of fig-trees, but, ala'-^ i at a dis-
t.ince far beyond the reach of my call.

' I formed at once the resolution of confronting the sentinel, and endeavouring
to escape. The moment was a precious one : the corps was evidently about to
move off, and was forming in open column of companies, with their band in llie
centre. While I was collecting all my scattered energies for one desperate ai.cl
headlong effort, a loud uproar in the distant catacomb arrested me for a moment,
and I heard the terrible voice of Mohammed Djedda exclaiming :

' " Barek Allah ! we shall find him yet ; the passage, slaves I the passage I
Hy God and the holy prophet, if the giaour escapes, *'alse dogs, ye sliall die I
Forward I "

* A confused trampling of feet, a rush and clatter followed, and 1 sprang
lightly throiich the aperture into the open air. Stealing softly toward;; the un-
conscious M -neluke, I wreathed my hand in the flowing mane of his Arab horse,
and seizing the dangling bridle, vaulted into his wooden-box saddle ; while he,
raising the cry of ''Allah, il AUahT' sprung up like a harlequin, and m:ulc a
sweeping stroke at nie with his sharp sabre. He was nlr>out to handle his long
brass-barrelled carbine, when, unliooking the steel mace which hung at his saddle-
b^iw. and discharging it full on his swarthy forehead, I stretched him motionless
on the earth. At that instant Mohammed, sabre and lance in hand, rushed fnjni
the ruined tower at the head of his followers.

' " Iloich I God save the King — hurrah ! " cricil I, giving them u shout of
reckless laughter and derision, as I forced the fleet Arab steed onward, like i\n
arrow shot from a bow — madly compelling it to leap high masses of ruinous wall^,
blocks of marble and granite, all of which it cleared like a greyhound, and carricfl
me in a minute among our own people, with whom I was safe, and under whtise
escort I soon rejoined the regiment, whom I found ail assured of my death--
especially the senior ensign, Cameron, who had got off scot-fice, having related
the doleful story of my brains being knocked out by the Mameluke soldier of
Mohammed Ojeddo, a complaint against whom was about to be lodged with tic
ahaik-elhcled by Lord Hutchinson, commanding the troops.

* Well, this was my adventure among the mummies, and it was one that left
a strong inipression, you may be sure. How dry my throat is with talking f

SCOTLAND FOR EVER

fvcr h,is them beftide him :

i':iii the (lccunters~the shcrry-ju((s, I ineim — whi
'tis now BO durk I cimuut bCC uhert: they urc'

I rum TKe lii/ni-i mi '•! War.

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THK VALiAiNT MACRAES

SEiuiKANT JiiiiN Macka^., a yniing Hum lilmut twenty-two years of upc, in the
ixpcdilioii to K^yjit in 1807, showed that the broadsword in u Uiiu hupd is as
^(Mid a weapon in eiose lighting as the Imyonet, If th - tirNt push of the bayonet
misses its aim, or 'mppens to lie parried, it is not easy * ; recover the weajwn, and
r('j>eat the thrust ^hen the enemy is bold enough to tlu'id firm ; but it is not t,o
with the sword, whieh uit.y be readily drawn from its It <w, wielded with eelerity,
and direeted to any part of the body, partieulatly to 'at I.jud and arms, while
its mc.'tion defend^ the [lerson using it. Maerac killed six men, cutting them
down with his broadsword, when at lost he made a dash out of the ranks on a Turk
wltoni he cut down ; but as ac was returning to the square he was killed by a blow
from behind, his ead being nearly spht in two by the stroke of a sabre. Lieu-
tenant Christojiher Macrae, who brought eighteen men ci his own name to the
regimeni as part of his quota of reeruita for an ensigncy, wan killed in the affair.
with six of his followers and namesakes besides the sergeant. On the passage to
Lisbon, in October 18U5, the same sergeant came ti Colonel Stewart cne evening
crying like a child, anH complaining that the ship's cook had called him Englisii
names which he did not understand, and thrown some fat in hii^ face. Thus u
lad who. in 180.~>, was so soft and childish, dispir ed in 1807 a courage worthy <«
hero of 0-sian.

From Hit hmk .j/ fvutlUh Am-nlum.

ALEXANDRIA

Lines wrinen .^t the request oi .he Highland Society in London, when met
to comrL-.^norate tne 2ist of March, the day of victory in Egypt.

By Thomas Campbell

Pledge to the much-loved land that gave us birtli I

Invincible romantic Scotia's shore I
Pledge to the memory of her parted worth I
And &I-A, amidst the brave, remember Moore 1

And be it deemed not wrong that name to give.
In festive hours, which prompts tl.e patriot's sigh !

Who would not envy such as Moore to live t
And died he not as heroes wish to die ?

Yes, though too soon attaining glory's goal.

To us his bright career too short was given ;
Yet in a mighty ciuse his phcenix soul

Rose on the tlames of victory to heaven I

How ofl (if beats in subjugated Spain

One patriot heart) in seerct shall it niouni
For him ! — How oft on far Co-'^anna's plain

Shall British exiles weep upon his urn I

NAPOLEON IN EGYPT

Vcnce t(i the niiglity dt-uj I— <iiir busuni thiink^t
In spriifhtlier utmins Ine livi; nmy iiisrirc t

J'ly to the chiefs tiiat lend old Si-otm'a ri i.jts,
Of Roinun gatb and nmre than Honmn lire !

TniimpUimt be tlie thistli; still unfurled,

Dear symbol wild I on Frvohuu's hills it Kr-.ws.

\Mierc FiiiRul steninie<l the tyrants t;f the wurld,
And Uu'iian euylcs found unconquercd foes.

J jy to the band this diiy on Egypt's fdust,
\Vhnsc vjdoiir tamed proud Fninci's tricolor.

And wrenched the banner fmni ht-r bmvcst hn^t,
Huptizcd Invincible in Austria's gore !

Juy fur tlie day im red Viincirii's btr.itid.

\\1icn, bayoi>et to bayonet opposed,
First of ilritariniu's host her Highland biind

Gave but the dcatl-.hot o ice, and forcnius closi

Is the'-' a son of ^'enerous Knplaiid here
O: lervid Erin V— be with us shall join.

To pray that iii eternal union dear.
The rose, the shamrock, and the tL tie twine I

T\ pes. of a race who sh.vll the invader scorn.
As rockh resist the billows round the shore ;

Types of a race who shall to time unborn
Their countrj' leave unconquered as (»f yore I

CHAPTER V

The Peninsular Campaigns

IMOS-ISU

THE CAMERONIANS

The Story oj the Scottish Rifles

TuE Ist battiiiinii of Ciimeronmns was origiiiiilly fnrincil fnmi ntnongst that ImhIv
of Scottish Presbyterians wh(tse leader was tlir fnimms field pn-acher, Uichartl
Canierui, and us the Cumeroniun Guunl (lO-^S) it f.nifjht doughtily, thrcmgh the
dark days of reliijioirs persecution, iipdinst the troops of ttie Sciltisli Government.
!•> 168tt the men of the (Jnard were taken on to the establishttient as the Elarl cf
Angus's Ilegitnent of Foot, wldeh for over fifty years after was known by the
■iuccessive names of its colonels, or unollleiiilly as The Canieronians. It becan.c
the ^Oth Reghiiciit of Foot in 1751, and the 26th (The Camcnmians) UeRiment 'if
Foot in 1780. The »Oth Regiment was raised li> Thonias Graham (afterwards
Lord Lynedoeh). in 17iJ9, as the 00th (Irish Lii^ht Infantry) RruMinent, and
disbanded in 1703. Another 90th Rejzinient of Foot was raised in 1773, and
dis!)andcd in 1783. Another, the 90th (Perthshire Volnntcers — Lijjht Infantry)
Regiment was raised in 1794. and in 1881 was linked with the 20th under the
title of The Cameronians (S(H,llish Rifles).

The fir^t battle of the Cameronians. after they had enrolled themselves in the
army of William ill., was at Dunkeld (1689), which they held triumphantly, under
(he Earl of Anp[u\, njjainst a .lacohite force that was four times lar^jer than their
i»wn. Their colonel, the Karl, was killed in action at Steenkirk. In the great
battles of JVLirlbo rough's r:iinpaiRns the 1st battalion of the rejiiment fought with
the highest distinctioii ; !;itcr it took part in the defence of Gibraltar, and won
tresh iionrnirs under Sir Ji hn Mrx>re in the Peninsula. Honours were conferred
on ImMi battalions for tin ;r service in Egypt ; on the 2nd, during the fighting in
the West Indies; on the 1st, in China end Abyssinia; on Hit 2nd, at Sevastopol
and Lueknow, to mention only a few of their famous victories.

As a rifle corp-^ The Cunieronians possess no colours. Nor do they own to any
nickname nowadays, though when the 1st battalion was the 2Gth regiment it was
commonly kn .rtn as "The Scots'; and when the 2nd battalion was the OOUi
regiment it was calltHl, jtfftr ihe clour of its breeches, ' Ttie Perthshire Grey-
breeks.'

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TIic principal campaigns
Diinkeia. 16S0.
niinders, 1691-5.
Slcenkirk, 1C92.
Landtn, 16!l3.
Niiinur, lOys.
G.miany, 1702-18.
Vciiloo, 1702.
i'ricdburg, 170+.
lllenheim, 1704.
Lunduu, 1701.
Itildcrshcim, ITOL
Limviiin, 1705.
Itumilios, 170G.
Daidt-rmondc, 1707.
Acth, 1706.
Oudinurdc, 170S.
\Vynt*ndjilc, 170S.

uiid battles of the
Lisip, 170S.
Timmtiv, 170S.

Aridpluquct, 1700.
Mans, 1709.
Itoucliitin, 1711.
(iibraltiir, 17l'7.
ILiVunnali, 1762.
America, 1770-81.
St. John's, 1775.
'I'itxjndcroga, 1775
Quebec, 1775.

Miuidum, 1801.
Alexandria, 1801.
iVninsuIa, 180S-9.
Cnrunna, 1809.
Flushing. 1809.

Ciunci'onians incKide : —

Martinique, 1809.
(iiiiulaloupc, IHQO.
IViiinsuk, 1811-12.
fitidad UodrifTo, 1811.
Ihina. l«t0-2.
South Adit-a. 18i0-7.
Si.vastopiiI, 1835.
Indian Mutiny, 1857-8.
l/ifknow, 1857.
Abvssiniii, 1K6S.
Suiith Africa, 1S77-3.
South Africa, 1899-1902.
Culenso, 1809.
Spion Kop. 1900.
Vaalknuiz, 1900.
I»i. tcrs Hill, 1900.

THE EDINBURGH YEOMANRY

By Lord Cockburn

Walter Scott whs the sunl ol' the Edinburgh troop of Midlothiiin Yeomanry
Ciivalry. It was not a duty with him, or a necessity, or a pastime, but an absolute
passion, indulgence in which gratified his feudal taste for war and hi^ jovial
sociable ii ess. He drilled, and drank, and made songs with a hearty conscientious
earnestness which inspired or shamed everybody within the attraction. I do not
know if it is usual, but his troop used to practice individually, with the sabre, at
a turnip, which was stuck on the top of a staff, to represent a Frenchman, in front
of the line. Every other trooper, when he set forward in his turn, was fur less con-
cerned i4.bout the success of his aim at the turnip than about how he was to tumble.
But Sir Walter pricked forward gallantly, sjiying to himself. ' Cut them down, the
villains, cut them down I ' and made his blow, which, from his lameness, was often
an awkward one, cordially muttering curses all the while at the detested enemy.

After the war broke out again in 1803, Edinburgh, like every other place,
became a camp, and continued so till the peace in 1814. We were all soldiers one
w;i V or other. Professors wheeled in the college area ; the side-arras and the
uniform peeped from behind the gown at the bar, and even on the bench ; and the
parade and the review formed the staple of men's talk and thoughts. Hope, who
had kept his lieutenant-colonelcy when he was Lord Advocate, adhered to it,
and did all his duties after he became Lord Justice-Clerk. This was thought
unconstitutional by some ; but the spirit of the day applauded it. Brougham
served the same gun in a company of artillery with Playfair. James Moncrieff,
John Richardson, James Grahame (the Sabbath), Thomas Thomson, and Charles
Bell were all in one company of riflemen. Francis Honier walked about the
streets with a musket, being a private in the Gentlemen Regiment. Dr. Gregory
was a soldier, and Thomas Brown the moralist, Jeffrey, and many another since
famous in more intellectual warfare. I, a gallant captain, commanded ninety-
two of my fellow-creatures from 1804 to 1814 — the whole course of that war.
Eighty private soldiers, two ofllcers, four sergeants, four corporals, and a trum-
peter, all trembled (or at least were bound to tremble) when T spoke.

From M^morioh o/ hh Tim>:
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SCOTLAND FOR EVER

^""dSoSs ™'' ^""^^"^ EDINBURGH LIGHT
By Sir Walter Scott

To horse! To horse I The standard flies,

Ihe bugle sounds the call I
The Gallic navy stems the seas,
Ihe voice of battle 's on the breeze

Arouse ye, one and all I

Froni high Dunedin's towers we come,

A band of brothers true •
Our casques the leopard's spoils surn.iuid,

.,, '""'""d's hardy thistle crowi.cd :

We boast the red and blue.

Though tamely couched to Gallia's frown
Dull Holland's tardy train •

I hough gallant Switzers vainly spurn
And, foaming, gnaw the chain ;

Oh had they marked the avenging call ■

Their brethren's murder gave"
Uisunion ne'er their ranks had mown,
Nor patriot valour, desperate grown,

!>ought refuge in the grave I

Shall we too bend the stubborn head

In Freedom's temple born,
Dress our pale cheek in timid smiie,
10 hail a master in our isle.

Or brook a victor's scorn ?

No I though destruction o'er the land

tome pouring as a flood.
The sun that sees our falling day
bliall mark our sabres deadly sw'.y.

And set that night in blood.

For gold let Gallia's legions fight,

Or plunder's bloody gain,
Unbribed, unbought, our swords we draw
lo guard our king, to fence our law.

Nor shall their edge be vain.

' Alkdine to the ™....„, of tl,e s.;.. Guard, .u 10,1, Augasi 17i.2.

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If ever breath of British gale

Shall fan the tri-color,
Or footstep of invader rude,
^^j''"»P'ne foul, and red with blood.

Pollute our happy shore-
Then farewell home, and farewell friends.

Adieu, each tender tie I
Resolved, we mingle in the tide
Where eharging squadrons furious ride,

lo conquer or to die.

To horse I To horse I The sabres gleam,

Uigh sounds our bugle call j
Combined by honour's sacretl tie.
Our word is ' Laws and Liberty ! '

March forward, one and all t
IV

CORUNNA

By David Stewart

general accompanyini h™ in the chZe He then "'".'^ 'H "" '^''^'^"™^' ""=
the Guards to the left flank of the hS;,i ""I^"^"^ ,"P " •'^ttalion of

conceiving, as their anmunihnn „ * !"^' "?°" "'"'='' ">« "Sht company

by the Gukrfs, SeTanTo faS back Lr^wl' 'Y ""'^ ""' *" "" '"'"«'
to them, 'My brave «nd,^oinvoJr e^m^/c' <''^™r"'"? ""' '""^"•''«' ""'d

'^AS\^h&SlS€^^^^'^^^^^^^^

forced him to q^it the fie^ ^f^T^.T, '"l"""^ '»' " ""^ket-ball, which

42nd were advancins upon wWch hi= """f """« ^'^ «"'^<^'y. he told him the
. . . Assisted by a SldSof U^e i2^d he"w™"™ '™J«*';"='y brightened up.'
shelter of a wall Co loiel Graham nf'n^ Kvnoj^ a few yards behind the
Guards came up, and, pe e^^nHhe sfaff T\" "J^, C,"?"^™ W^odfori of the
off for surgeons' P^-^^ving the state of Sir John's wound, instantly rode

pur^«™TptainHa'^.rattem„J^%""'i;"i7''l.P"' '" « "'-''e' '»' that
side, when he^saS in Wus^tone1„d^^' "''''" n"- ^""^ '"'"' ^^ ™""ded
rather that it should gSout^'thTaeldwitTnT."' H " "' k'" ^, "'" ' ^ "'"'
Harding, ' by six soldiers of the 42nd and r,,.,^ T '"'™'' ^^'^ ^"P**'"

easy posture. Observing the reiluHnn „,S ' ^ «>* ™Pl»rting him in an
at the hope that I might be miSen in nn feaTS'^ °' ""^ 'r'""^' ' ™"8'"
remarked that I trusted when the%uril„' i Ji i """""^ ''""« "">*'- ^d
spared to us and reSiver He then w^ K l"^ ^'" """J"''' *■«" ''» "™'d be
fastly at the woundfo7a few slc^ndsTa " T^'^^^J^^' ^"?: ''«'""« ^t""*"
unpossible... I wished to accom^n^ him'fothe'tr^tfe'siS.' •^t'u'°ne^'

7(5 SCOTLAND FOR EVER

not go with me ; report to General Hope that I am wounded and carried to the
rear." A sergeant of the 42nd and two spare fiJcs, in case of accident, were
ordered to conduct their brave general to Coruima.' As the soldiers were carry-
ing him slowly along, he mrde them turn round frequently to view the field of
battle, and to listen to the firing ; and was well pleased when the sound grew
fiiinter, judging that the enemy were retiring.

Colonel Wynch, being wounded, was passing in a spring waggon. Wlien he
underst( jd the general was in the blanket, he wished him to be removed to the
Wiiggon. Sir John asked one of the Highlanders whether he thoaght the waggon
or bljinket best ? when the soldier answered that he thought the blanket best.
' I think so too,' said the general ; and the soldiers proceeded with him to Corunna,
bhcdding tears all the way.

Colonel Anderson, his friend and aide-de-camp for twenty years, thus describes
the general's last moments : — ' After some time, he seemed very anxious to speak
to me, and at intervals got out as follows : " Anderson, you know that 1 always
wished to die in this way." He then asked, were the French beaten ?— which
he repeated to every one he knew as they came in, ** I hope the people of
England will be satisfied ; I hope my country will do me justice. Anderson,
you will see m> friends as soon as you can. Tell them everything — Say to my
mother " — Here his voice quite failed, and he was excessively agitated.' At
the thought of his mother, the firm heart of thia brave and affectionate son gave
way — a heart which no danger, m'-. even his present r'tuation, could shake, till the
thoughts of his mother, and what she would suffer, came across his mind. . . ,

As Sir John Moore, according to the wish which he had uniformly expressed,
died a soldier in battle, so he was buried like a soldier, in his full uniform, in a
bastion in the garrison of ( .runna. Colonel Graham of Balgowan and the officers
of his family only attending.

Crom S/tetche* qfthi- Iligh/undiri'.

THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE
Ey Charles Wolfe

Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,
As his corse to the rampart we hurried ;

Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot
O'er the grave where our hero we buried.

We buried him darkly at dead of night,
The sods with our bayonets turning,

By the struggling moonbeam's misty light,
And the lantern dimly burning.

No useless coffin enclosed his breast.
Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ;

But he lay like a warrior taking his rest.
With his martial cloak around him.

Few and short were the prayers we said.
And we spoke not a word of sorrow ;

And we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead.
And we bitterly thought of the morrow.

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We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed.

And smoothed down his lonely pilluvv,
That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head,

And we far away on the billow I

Liglitly they *I1 talk of the spirit that *s gone.

And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him —
But little he 'II reck if they '11 let him sleep on,

In the grave where a Briton has laid him.

But half of our heavy task was done,

When the clock struck the hour for retiring ;

And we heard the distant and random gun
That the foe was sullenly firing.

Slowly and sadly we laid him down,

From the field of his fame firesh and gory ;

We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone —
But we left him alone in his glorj-.

THE BLACK WATCH, CAMERONS, AND HIGHLAND

LIGHT INFANTRY AT FUENTES D'ONORO

By Archibald Forbes

When WelUngton blockaded Almeida the French advanced to attempt the relief
of the fortress ; and on May 8. 1811, they fell upon the five battahons of chosen
British troops which occupied the position of Fuentes d'Onoro. Very severe
fighting took place ; but the French were repulsed, and the British regiments
held the village in the midst of the killed and wounded of both sides. Massena
attacked again on the 5th in far greater strength. The British cavalry withdrew
behind the light division. Houston's division, thus entirely exposed, was charged
with great impetus, and Captain Norman Ramsay's troop of horse artillery was
cut off and surrounded. Presently a great commotion was observed among the
French sc^uadrons ; men and ofiicen closed in confusion towards one point,
where a thick dust was rising, and where loud cries, the sparkling of blades, and
the flashing of pistols indicated lome extraordinL occurrence. 'Suddenly,*
in Napier's burning words, * the multitude was vioU- tgitated, a British shout
arose, the mass was rent asunder, and Norman Ra.i. burst forth at the head
of his battery, his horses breathing fire and stretching like greyhounds along the
plain, his guns bounding Uke things of no weight, and the mounted gunners in
close and compact order protecting the rear.' But while this briUiant action was
in progress, it was nevertheless abundantly evident that the battle would soon
be lost if the original position was not immediately regained. Craufiurd retired
slowly over the plain In squares, followed by the enemy's horse, which near the
wood surprised and sabred an advanced post of the Guards, making Colonel Hi:!
and fourteen men prisoners. They then continued their charge, but suddenly
found themselves in front of the Royal Highlanders. They chai^ged with great
fierceness, but before that day the Highlanders had learned how to deal wiUi
charging cavalry. With signal gallantry Lord Blantyre and his battalion repulsed

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ri^S: of 't niranuT^T' two 'Zl'"' "> T" »'?" "^ "'other-Highland
prisoner,, and its colonel the JZtTff °' "" ''"" <•"?» "ere taken
fwhting lasted until ZLg Slf^l^^TJZl T '""'^""y «o"nded. The
prineipal objeet, the covering of tT.eW^kaT^f A^Jn"'*'' """^ "-'""gt™''
however, a los» of 1500 offleer, and men 8M of «hT„^^ ' "'" ^'""™''' "'""•
BInntyre received a gold medal -a^dihe^ 1,1, • were pnsoncrs. Lord
displayed by roval authority co'm^emor.L «". f/ *^'"^"'" d'Onoro,'
second battalion of the RoyIi'HSrrrri:!\histircon^^^^^^ '" ""

From nt fl/„c4 Pl-„(i*.
VII

™ c^°r!^°°^^ ^^° HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY AT

ST. PIERRE AND ARROYO DOS MOLINES
By II. R. Clinton

"ttn?t:5^t£™Vo'^Xtel';-t-h1'w;iv/"^^^^^

. . . occupied the broken summit nfrh^il^*^?"."'*'^'''*''''''''' Portuguese
P.er.-e. and which is cro™ iTy t L hi«h old ""oT:^^ ^'^^^"■^""''e' "^ «'•
occupied ... the extremitv itT^A ^O" the right wmg General Eynff

Gene^ral Pringle . . . «c^pTed h" hei^ht^'Ttl. tf°'"- ' ' " "" "«^ '^f '^^"f

Abba's attack was^dil) red witWgour'jL left ^^^^ ' " •

was hard pressed, and the wno,l V,n Ti, • '• u " °' Ashworth's Portuguese
sent forward the 7Is? regimen?ld twol' "*»*" T I"''™- «""»rt t^er^ljore
regiment to retake the Cd ffis ecXe^brina t'h'' """"i ""'' """' "' «'" «»«■
pushed more vigorously on it Ab?' f -T^ "eakened, the attack was

Ashworth's left, with thLeserve of the 4rr-t-,h-'''''''''=^ '"= top, and
Colonel Peacock of the 71st h«i^g • slmmefuHv „^ KH ' ^T.""'= <'"™, back.
At this cn^^is General Barnes brought ourthe^a'dST i'''" gallant troops.
Cameron, from the village of St Pierre «nH»i.i- " e^'^^ers, under Colonel
advance, iu charge broke two P~ k ' " '"' '""'""^hers falling back for its
troops wre bfoufht fo^a d and^Utttv'",^'"""- ''"'■"<'« ^'^^^

■ ■ . Un.,er this storm of shot and shell ?he P9 /h^S "j""" "■^'"■^'^ opened fire,
and the Portuguese guns ceased to ^c ^ '° ''^''^ ''^'>'"'^ ^t. Pierre,

who^^'dXedultotendbael'^oSlX; kT.'""' "° -"™ = 'or Hill.
(Da Costa's) of Le Cor's reserve to sunnnrl fh rT* jlP?''' ''"'^ '"* »"« '>''««'lc
(Buehan-s) to aid Byng. ThL ™sh ^f t^e ^i I l' ""'* ""^ '™' '"'^ "*''" ^"S^^
their colonel's wealTef , 4^ Teaded bv H I andT^ *1'?'^'= **■= "^o^ »'
Portuguese gallantly supported md the lefl ■ T"^ '" P'="on, Le Cor's
staggering when the wavfng black „umA ."h ^« °/ ""= '^™'^'' <=^"t^' *"
appeared coming down thlrrld from S? I" g^^n tartans of the 92nd again
ranks behind thfvillage. and^ssued frem rt f^f'. flf ''"' -i;™ ''"'' ".formed his
stance of war,' the colon s flying and nb?s nllvif , t P""*!'- P""?' '"<> °™'"-
Upon this the skirmishers, wLo*had ^P^ffc T '"^ "".='""8 P"* ?' « review,
officer who rode at the head of the Pr^f? * V" *«*'" advanced ; and the

centre faced about and ^tired in j^™'T" "*'"?' "^ The enemy's

victors, to the heights Lm:h1e"th^haT'd"lceTd':d°'"lfwi? '"' ^^'"""*^
the day was won. ... ' "escenaea. it was now noon, and

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One brigade of tl.c Frencli liud already marched out upon tlie Medcllin road, and
the rest were gathermg to depart-all the outlying pickets having come in-when
the allies cavalry dashed down the village street. The thick blinding rain in-
creased the confusion ; some ran for their knapsacks, others were calling for their
norMs, and in every part a ptrfcct panic reigned. Girnrd himself believed that
■t was merely a raid of Spaniards, as he considered the British were not such early
risers; but the screams of the bagpipes, which were playing the appropriate
« .?,' w., ,',""'', ^"l"'' ""<l<^«'^''d him, and before he could form hi' infantry,
the 7Ut (Ilighlond Light Infantry) and 02nd (Gordon Highlanders) rushed with
flxed bayonets into the village. The French cavalrv, lighting gallantlv, were
driven to the end of the street, and the musketry of the 71st now opened from
,?f , 17" °" , "''""8 """'«'' °' 'nf»ntry. The hurriedly formed squares
of the latter were shattered by the guns, and, by a sudden charge, Pcnnc-Villeraur's
cavalry and a few English hussars cai.tured their artillery and dispersed their
cavalry. ... It is a remarkable illustration of the manner in which the militory
authorities at honoe bestowed honours on the Peninsular veterans, that the name
ol Anoyo dos .Molinos is inscribed on the colours of one rruiment only, the 8tth.

'" oni ru IV„it,tt,/„r U;,r.
VIII

ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN GRANT
By James Grant

toLQunouN Grant, a euptain of one of our battalion companies during the
1 eninsular War, was a hardy, active, strong, and handsome Highlander, from
the wooded mountains that overlook Strathspey. Inured from childhood to the
hardships and activity incidental to the life of the country of the elans, where the
cure of vast herds if sheep and cattle, or the pursuit of the wild deer from rock
to rock, and from hill to hill, are the chief occupations of the people— a deadly
shot with either musket or a pistol, and a eompie'e swordsman, he was every way
ealeulated to become an ornament to our regir .t and to the service. General
i>ir Wilham Napier, in the fourth volume of h Illtlory of Ihe Pmimular War
writes of him as • Colquhoun Grant, that celebrated scouting officer, in whom the
utmost daring was so mixed with subtlety of genius, and both so tempered by
luscretion, that it is difficult to say which quality predominated.'

In the spring of 1812, when Lord Wellington crossed the Tagus and entered
CasteUo Branco, the 42nd, or old Black Watch, were with the division of
Lieutenant-General Graharae, of Lyneoeh. The service battalion consisted of 1160
rank and file, and notwithstanding the fatigues of marching by day and night
of fording rivers above the waist-belt, and all those arduous operations by which
Wellmgton so completely baffled and out-generaled Marmont in all his attempts
to attack Rodrigo, not a man of our regiment sUggered or fell to the rear, from
huni^r, weariness, or exhaustion ; all were with the colours when the roll was
called in the morning.

The information that enabled Wellington to execute those skilful manoeuvre!
which dazzled all Europe, and confounded, while they baffled, the French marshal
was supplied from time to time by Colquhoun Grant, who, accompanied by
Donungo dc Leon, a Spanish peasant, had the boldness to remain in rear of the
enemy's lines, watching all their operations and noting their numbers ; and it
IS a remarkable fact that while on this most dangerous service he constantly woi»
the Highland uniform, with hit bonnet and epatMtet ; thus, while acting as a

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Bl ^

Boout, freeing himself Trutu the accusation of being in any way a spy, ' fur/ add^
Napier, * he never would assume any disguise, and yet frequently remained fur
three days concealed in the midst of Marmont's camp.'

Hence the scent of Wellington's facility for ciroumventing Marmont was the
information derived from Colquhoun Grant ; and the secret of Grant's abihty
for balHing the thousand snares laid for him by the French, was simply that he
had a Spanish love, who watched over his safety with all a woman's wit, and the
idolatry of a S;>anisli woman, who, when she loves, sees but one man in the world
—the object of her passion.

When Marmont was advancing, Wellington dispatched Captain Grant to
watch his operations * in the heart of the French army," and from among its
lotdiers to glean whether they really had an intention of succouring the garrison
of Ciudad Rodrigo — a desperate duty, which, like many others, our hero under-
took without delay or doubt.

Thus, on an evening in February, Grant found himself on a solitary mountain
of Leon, uverlouking the vast plain of Salamanca, on the numerous s| 'res and
towers of which the light of eve was fading, while the gilded vanes of the t .thedral
shone like stars in the deep blue sky that w^^ darkening as the sun set behind
the hills ; and one of those hot dry days peculiar to the province gave place
to a dewy twihght, when the Tormes, which rises among the mountains of
Salamanca, and washes the basv. of the triple hill on which the city stAnds,
grew white and pale, as it wandered ^nrough i. loins dotted by herds of merino
sheep, but destitute of trees, u/^til it vanished ou its course towards the Douro,
on tlie frontiers of Portugal.

Exhausted by the long ride from Lord WclUngton's headquarters, and by
numerous efforts he had made to repass the cordon of picqucts an<l ' itrols by
which the French — now on his track — had environed him, Grant \a\ buried in
deep sleep, under the shade of some olive-trees, with a brace of pistols in his belt,
his claymore by his side, and his head resting in the lap of a beautiful Spanish
peasant girl, Juanna, the sister of his faithful Leon, a warm-hearted, brave, and
affectionate being, who, like her brother, had attached herself to the favourite
scouting ofBcer of Wellington, and, full of admiration for his adventurous spirit,
handsome figure, and winning manner, loved him with all the ardour, romance,
and depth of which a Spanish girl of eighteen is capable.

Juanna de Leon and her brother Domingo were the children of a wealthy
farmer and vine-dresser, who dwelt on the mountainous range known as the Puerto
del Pico, which lies southward of Salamanca ; but the vines had all been destroyed,
the granja burned, and the poor old agriculturist v s bayoneted on his hearthstone
by some voltigeurs of Marmont, under a Lieutenant Armand, when on a foraging
expedition. Thus Juanna and her brother were alike homeless and kinless.

The girl was beautiful. Youth lent to her somewhat olive-tinted cheek a
ruddy glow that enhanced the dusky splendour of her Spanish eyes ; her laches
were long ; her mouth small, Uke a cherry ; her chin was dimpled ; her hands
were faultless, as were her ankles, which were cased in pretty embroidered red
stockings, and gilt zepatas. Close by lay the guitar and castanets with which
she played and sang her weary lover to sleep.

Her brother was handsome, athletic, and resolute in eye and bearing ; but
since the destruction of tneir house he had become rather fieree and morose,
as hatre^ of the invading French and a thirst for vengeance were ever upper-
most in his raind. He had relinquished the vine-bill for the musket ; his yellow
■ash bristled with pistols and daggers ; and with heaven for his roof, and his
brown Spanish mantle for a couch, he had betaken himself to the mountains,

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where he shot without mercy every straggling Frenchman who came within
reach of his terrible aim.

While Grunt slept, the tinkling of the vesper bells was borne across the valley,
the sunlight died away over the mountains, and the windinj? Tomics, that shone
like the coils of a vast snake, faded from the plain. The Spanish girl stoopi !
and kissed her toil-worn lover's cheek, ami bent her keen dork eyes upon tlie
mountain-path by which she seemed to expect a visitor.

One arm was thrown around the curly head of the sleeper, and her fingers
told her beads as she prayed over him.

Suddenly there was a sound of footsteps and a handsome younji Spnniiinl
wearing a brown capa gathered over his arm, shouldering a long musket to which
a leather sling was attached, and having his coal-bluck hair gnthered behind in a
red silk net, sprang up the rocks towards the oHve-grovc, mid iipproached Juaniia
and the sleeper. The newcomer was her brother.

' Domingo, your tidings ? ' she asked breathlessly.

* They are evil ; so wake your Seflor Capitano without aelay.'

* I ara awake,* said Gr^'nt, rising at the sound ctf his voici-. * Thanks, dearest
Juanna; have I been so cruel as to keep you here in the cold dew — and watching
me, too ? '

* Caro mio ! *

* It was cruel of mc ; but I have been sr, weary that nature was quite over-
come. And new, Domingo, my bueno camarado, for your tidings T *

* I have been down the valley Piid across the plain, almost to the gates ctf
Salamanca.' said the young paisano, leaning on his musket, and surveying, first
his sister with tender interest, and then Grant with a dubious and anxious expn s-
sion, for he loved hira too, but trembled for the sequel to the stranger's pass= n
for the beautiful Juanna. *I have been round the vici'Mty of the city t\>m
Santa Marta on the Tormes '

* And you have learned ? * said Grant impetuously.

' That scaling-ladders have been prepared in great numbers, for I saw them.
Vast quantities of provision and ammunition on mules have been brought from
the Pyrenees, and Marmont is sending everything — ladders, powder, and bread
— towards '

' Not Ciudad Rodrigo and Alraieda.*

' Si, seizor.'

' The devil 1 Yuu are sure of this ? *

' I counted twenty scaling-ladders, each five feet wide, and reckoned forty
mules, each bearing fourteen casks of ball cartridges.'

' Good— I thank you, Domingo,' said Grant, taking paper from a pocket-
book, and making a hasty note of memorandum for Lord Wellington.

' Ay — Dios mi terra I ' said Juanna, with a soft sigh, as she drooped her head
upon Grant's shoulder, and Domingo kissed her brow.

' Now, where is Manrieo el Barbado ? ' asked the captain, as he securely
gummed the secret note.

* Within '-!!,' said Domingo, irtving a shrill whistle.

A sound like the whir oi a partridge replied, and then a strong and ferocious-
looking peasant, bare legged and bare necked, with an enormous black beard
(whence came his soubriquet of el Barbado), sprang up the rocks and made a
profound salute to Grant, who was beloved and adored by all the guwillas, banditti,
and the wild spirits whom tht French had unhoused and driven to the mountains ;
and among these his name was *: proverb for all that was gallant, reckless, and
chivalresqiie.

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' Is your mule in gcKxl ojiiditini), Munrico ? '

* He w(i8 never better, scftnr.'

' Then ride with Ihh to loril VVillinglon j spnre neither whip nor spur, and he
will repay you handsomely.'

' And how about yourself, seftor ? *

•Say to his lordship that I v.ill njiiin him as earlv ond as best I nia\ .'

The Spanish scout concealed the note in his Ijeard with great inffcnuity, and
knowmg well tl at he could thus pass the French lines with w.nllflence. and defy
all search, he departed on his journey to the British headquarters ; and the
niformation thus received from Grant enabled the leader of the allies to take such
meosures us completely to outflank Mormont, and bofflc his attempts upon
Almieda and the city of Rodrigo,

•So nuieh fur my friend, Mamiont,' said Grant! 'and now, Doninco. for
myteir *■ '

■ Read this," said nominjjo, liajidiiig to him a document ; ' I s abl)ed the
French sentinel at the bridge of Santa JIarta, and tore this paper from the imard-
house door.'

It proved to be a copy of a General Onler addressed by Marmont to the colonels
of the Fri-nrh regiments, ' saying ' (to quote General Napier) ' that the notorious
l.rant. being withm the circle of their cantonments, the soldiers were to ise their
utmost exertions to secure him ; for which purpose guards were also to be placed,
as it were, in a circle round the army.'

' Cnro mio, read this to me,' wliispered Juanna.

He translated it, and terror filled the dii.!ting eve^ of the Spanish girl j her
breath came thick and fast, and she crept closer to'lbe brcost of her lovci, who
snuled and kissed her cheek to reassure her.

■ Have you closely examined all the ■xjuntry 1 ' he asked Domingo.
' I have, sefior.'

' Well 1 •

• There is but one way back to Lord Wellington's headquarters.'
' And that is ' ^

' .\t the ford of Hticrtn on the Tormes.'

■ Six miles below Salamanca f '

• Vis.'

' I will cross the ford then.'

■ Hut a French battalion occupies the town.'

' I care not if ten bottalions occupied it— 7 mutt even ride titeford (U I find it;
tis a saying in my country, Domingo, where I hope our dear Juanna will one day
smile with me, when we talk of sunny Spain and these wild adventures.'

■ No— no— you will never leave Spain,' said Juanna with a merry smile. ' Your
poor Spanish girl could never go to the land of the Inglcsos, where the sun shines
but once a year— not once every day, as it does here in beautiful Leon.'

' And now for Hucrta,' said Domingo, slapping the butt of his musket im-
patiently J ' the moon will be above the Pico del Puerto in half an hour- vaya
— le* us be gone.' '

Grant placed Juanna on the saddle of his horse, a fine, fleet, and active jennet
presented to him by Lord Wellington, and led it by the bridle, while Domingo
slung his musket and followed thoughtfully behind, aii they descended the hill
with the intention of seeking the banks of the Tormes ; but making a wide detour
towards the ford. The moon was shining on the river when they came in sight
of F'erta, a small village through whi. h passes the road from Salomanca to
Ma' id. A red glow at times shot from its tile-works, showing the outlines of

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the flat-rtMjfcd eottiitjcs, arul wuvcrinjj oil the Dhve-i^niVcs thai ovcrhiiiiu lite
river, which wn» here t■r^l»^ell by ilic furd. While (Jruiit mil Juunnii reiiiiiiiKil
oneenled in n thicket of orunneli-ei!. ui niRht of Ilurrtn, O.. iiiiinu, «husc iiml-
fiitiier win a tile-beurcr iii the lown, went funiuril In riiin.iioitrc iiiid iniike
inquiries. Ami in Ir s timn twenty ntiniitCH he rt-dirntd witli a gl'^oniy hniw
and excited eye.

* 1 have still evil news, S*-ft(>r.'
•Inde 1?'

* The French Iwittnliitn ncriipics lliicrtu. and the main street is full nl MiUlicru.
Guards are placed at each end, and cavalry vuUttes are piisti'd in a line along
the river, p.itrolling constantly hackwanU and iorwanls, fi>r the space of three
hundred yanis, and two of these vl^lettcs meet always at Ihtford, consequently, be
assured they know that yttu are on this side of the Tonnes.'

' The deuce ! ' muttered Grant, biting his lips. • -M. le Mart hal JIarmont is
determined to take me this time, Il'car; but I ulU cniss the f..iil, l)omin|;i>, in
ttie face of the enemy too I Uctlcr die a soldier's death unilcr tl«ir lire, than
fail alive into their hands.'

' A soldier's death and a suiUlcn one is .sure to follow, ScB ir t'apilano,' .iddid
Dominfio gloomily; and p<wr Grunt wus not without anxiety for the issue.

' But 1 will iiniT be taken, alive at least,' resiKinded the Hiuhlanilcr with a
fierce and sorrowful embrace ; ' 'tis better to die than be taken, and perhaps have
the uniform I wear— the unifonu of the Black Watch— disgniceil '.jy death at the
hands of a provost marshal.'

Tlie young Spanish girl caught the fiery enthusiasm of her lover, and ncrvcil
herself for the struggle, and for their consequent separation ; but Domingo hod
once more to examine the gnaind, and so many points were to 1« considered, that
day began to brighten on the Pico del Puerto and the Sierras of Gredos and Gata,
before Grant mounted his horse ; and by that time the French drums had beaten
reveille, and the whole Iwittalioi. was under arms at its alarm-post, a greensward
behind the tile-works. Juanna and her lover parted with promises of nmtnal
regard and remembrance until they met again.

■ Bucno— away I ' said Domingo, taking Grant's horse by the bridle—' away
before day is quite broken.'

As they hurried oft, Juunna threw herself on her knees in the thicket, and
prayed to God and Madonna for tier lover. She covered her beautiful hca I .nth
that thick mantle usually worn by the women of Leon, to shut out every sound ;
but lo I there came a loud yet distinct shout from the river's bank, and then a
confused discharge of (ireanns that rang sharply in the clear morning air.

■ O Madonna mia I ' exclaimed the Spanish girl, and with a shriek she threw
herself upon her face among the grass.

Meanwhile Giant had proceeded in the rear of the tile-works, close by where
the French regiment was paraded in close column at quarter discunce, and so
near was he that he could hear the sergeants of companies calling the roll ; but
n group of peasants assembled by Domingo remained around his horse, with their
broad sombreros and brown cloaks, to conceal it from the French, along whose
front he hod to pass to reach the foril. From the gable of a cottage he had a full
view of the latter- the Tormes brawling over its bed of rocks and pebbles, with
the open pbin that lay beyond, and the two French vedettes, helmelcd and
cloaked, with carbine on thigh, patrolling to and fro, to the distance of three
hundred vs*- ' '^art, but meeting at the ford.

' The ieem dark and indistinct, in the starry light of the morning,'

said Grai. ' ^w when I whistle let go my horse's head, and do you, my good

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tHends in front, withdraw to give lue «i>ttM, for now the vcdcttci are •bout lo
part, and I mu»t make a dash for it.' ....... i

At the mnmtnt when the patruN were M|>.irttt«l to their fullcrt extent, nn.l
each wa. one hundred and fifty yaid. fn.m the f.ml. Grant dashed jpurM into his
horse, and with hii sword in his teeth and a clicked pistol in each hand, ciossnl
the river by three furioui biundi of hii hone. Receiving without damage the
fire of both carl.inrs, he rephrd with hii pistols, giving eorh of the dragoons a
Bying-shot to the rear, but without injuring eith.r of thciii. There was an in-
•tantaneous ond keen pursuit ; but he completely baffled it by hii complete
knowledge of I he coi...try, and reached a corkwood in safety, where he was lo-.n
joined by Domingo de Leon, who, being attired as a peasant, and unknown to the
Wench, was permitted to paas their lines unquestioned.

Grant was not satisfied with the extent of hii obs.rv«tions ; he was re'olvcO
to iidge for himself of the direction in which Marmont meant to move, tor this
Dnrnosc he daringly concealed himself among some coppice on the brow of a hiu
neaTthe secluded village of Taniame., which is celebrated for its mineral »pnnps,
and lies thirty-two miles south-west of Salamanca. There he sat, note-hook in
hand, with Leon, smoking a cigM and lounging on the gras., whde hii jcnncl
unbitted, was quietly grazing close by, and the who e of M"™™* ' b"''""'
division, cuirassiers, lancers, infantry, artillery, and voltigeun defiled with drum,
beating, tricolours waving, and eagles glittering through the pass 'W ! ana
Grant's skilful eye counted every cannon and reckoned over every home i-nd mun
with a correctness that astonished even Lord Wellington. The moment the reor-
guard had passed, he mounted, and although in his uniform, /<^\?x""y ''!;°
the village of Tamames, where he found all the scaling-lodders left behind. With
tidings of this fact, and the strength of Marmonfs army, he "► • 't dispatched
a letter to Wellington, by Manrieo el Barbodo, who, as before
hii nether-jaw ; and this letter, which informed the alUea th '
to storm Hodrigo were, after all. a pompous /nn/, allayed theu
the fortress, and, to Marmonfs inexpressible annoyance, enabl.
attentio.i to other quarters. , , j j „_

Fearless, indefatigable, and undeterred by the dangers he had undergone.
Grant preceded Marmont (when the officer passed the Coa) and resolved to dis-
LOver whether his march would be by the duchy of Guarda upon Coimbra, the
land of olives, or by the small frontier town of Sabugal, upon Costello Branco.
which sUnds upon the Lira, a tributary of the Tagus, and still displays the ruins
of the Roman Albicastrum from which it takes It; name. ,^ .^ ,

Castello Bra.ico is a good military position ; but to reach it a descent was
necessary from one of those lofty sierras that run along the frontier of Portuguese
Estram«lura, and are jagged by bare and sunburned rock., or dotted by stunted
Uurel bushes. From thence he traversed a pass, at the lower end of which stands
the town of Penamacor in the province of Beira, thirty-six miles north-east of
Castel'o Branco. There our ao^nturons Highlander, accomponied by Mannco
el Barbado and the faithful Domingo de Leon, concealed himself in a thicket of

''"The "three wanderers passed ,ie whole of the next day lurking in Uie oak
woods that overhong the pass of I'enamacor.

Night again drew on, and the three companions were all ahke watchful and

""rhe hour of ten began to toll from the b>ll, of Penamacor. At the first
ttroke Grant felt a nervous sensation thrill over his whole body.

At the tenth stroke, lo I a brilliant light flashed across the sky. It shot

caled it under

e preparations

«der's fear for

him to turn

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iipwuiil rriiiit llie citmlvl uf l'rriiitii;icnr I 'I'm: i-rt-iiL-liitcil biillli-iiicula iitul kliiirfi
HfiircH of lUc three chttrc-hcM »U».n\ tlnrkly imiI irom the Lhixc, which «us ^treukcd
by the iisrciit uf hUsint; iuckct.<i ; the ularm-bcll wiit itN injii cluiijinur uit the
wind, but iiiiii^l il witli the Uhxii uf (.Mriiinii ; affiitn ciuue the hum lA voivvu, iiiiil
twu dark and shaduny cohituiiN delx)iiLhcd rroin the blufk JHW'<i ut the niountuiii
ffnrife und dcM'rri<h-d tnwartU thi- bridge uf VA'yis ; the iiphfted Uukc^ iiihI Axed
iNiyuncts {{tcaincd buck the stiirh^hl, while the rumble of the hhut-luilcii tumbrils
ning in (he echoing vidley.

* M.idi"e lie Uius t the enemy I ' excbimcd iUv twu S|iiiniitrds, slarlintj tu the

lUUiikctM.

' O I Sfftur capihinu, 'tis Frcudi— the French I the ludroncii los pcrn>!i I '
exclaimed .NLinricu, mbhiy Urmg his niiisket ut three ur fuur niltli^-r.i, whose
outline, with lihakci und ktiapsiick, appeured un a Itttte ridj^e clusc by. tuur
muikets, di>chitrf;ed ut ruiduin, replied, and ill a mumcut the three itcimts fuuntl
themselves n;;htinj( hund to luind with a mob of active little French vujtigeurs,

Tlic latter recu^'iii^cd the lliifhland uniform uf Grunt, and tludin^ hiin with
two Spaniards, knew him at unce t» be the famous scouting oflieer, for whose
nrrest, dead or ulivi, >Lirmont hud uflcn-il such a princely reward, and uttering
loud tihouts, they pressed u|K>n him with bayonets fixed ond muskets clubbed.

Stron^t, active, und fcartesft, he hewed them down with hii claymore on hU
sides. He shut two with his pistulii, and then hurled the empty wcaiH>ii at the
heads uf others, an^, with Leon, succecdctl in niountinfi and galloping off ; but
Munrico was beaten down, und left insensible on the niountuiu-side.

'Grant and his follower,' Bays General Napit-r, 'darted into the wcod for a
little space, and, then, suddenly wheeling, rude off in different directions ; but
at every turn new ettemies appeared, and at lii>t, the hunted men, dismounting,
fled on foot, thitu)^'h the- thickest puit of the low oaks, until they were again
met by infantry dctachecl in small parti*; duwn the sides uf the puss, and directed
m their chase '>y the waving of the French oificers' hats on the ridge above.
(Day had now broken.) I -m fell exhausted, and the barbariun^j who firiit came
up killed him, in spite of V- companion's entreaties.

* My pot>r .f uunri t, what will become of you ? ' exclaimed Grant, on seeing
his faithful Domingo expiring under the reeking bayonets of the voltigenrs ;
and now. totally inchpabic of further resistance, he gave up his sword to an
oflicer, who protected him from tli<j fury of his captors. He was at lust a prisoner I

The uflicer who had captured him, M. Arnuind, was a young sous-lieutenant
of the 8rd Voltigeurs (the siune who had destroyed the graiya of Leon the farmer) ;
but he had a heart that would have done honour to a marshal uf the empire ;
and, with all kindness and respect, he conducted him to the quarters of the
Mirshal Due de Raguse.

The latter invited the captive to dinner, and chatted with him in a friendly
way about his bold and remarkable adventures, saying thuL he (Marmont) bud
been long on the watch for him ; that he knew his companions Manrico the
liearded, Leon and his sister Juanna (here Grunt trembled), and that all hiii
luiunts and disguises were known too,

'Disguises — pardon me, M. le Ma radial,' said Grunt wannly ; 'disguises
j>re worn by spies ; I have never worn other dress than the uniform and tartan
of my regiment.'

' The bolder fellow you I ' exclaimed the Due de Raguse. ' You are aware
tliat I might hang you ; but I love a brave spirit, and shall only exact from
you a special parole, that you will not consent to be released by any partida
or guerilla cie on your journey between this and France.'

88 SCOTLAND FOR EVER

'Monseigneur le Due, tlie exaction of this parole is tlic areatest coninlimpnt
rrH""n?r^ "™' '?^'"^ """"• «'">' •"> ""Sing n,atter?d:^e .te?Xrh

co£^9:S!:?tl:r-^^l{:^S^;;t^eZ:i!::^!:it;;^ts^^^

SLSSe'^^n "'•"™'. °f '?=;!™ ' ''"' - " K"""la el,icf with f ve tSL
desperadoes held possession of the town and bridt-e, our lieutenant of voltigeurs

a-'ril/n^rr; o'f tTeto Ja^f^Xd" '° """''"' "^^''-'^^ -"^ ^^^ ^*'"-

tJ^t»^&S.si^=cJSrr,i:'trr;^ J!;—:;;

travellers bivouacked was palpable, painful, and oppressive, Zl autoes

The sky ^ '"^ '*"'' "«'""'"« "''''^'' '^'"" "-^^^^ "'<^ »^>'"'<'"' q"''rter Mr

of n^w''L'T'"i ''''•■''"^'' ""-''' P'""''''"^ "' Lisbon wine, and discussed their mti.H,
^LTJ^ ^ and ccrrmis .anat biscuit. Grant and Armand, the voltigcur, lay do v
tratema ly side by s.de m their cloaks to repose ; their escort lay close bv lonL
smce asleep; for Grant Imd given his paile that he ' would not attemn"o
SYhTf. '"'\''"%^i'^"j'i.^» of military honour and value for a s^S e,!^s
word, that these brave Frenchmen never doubted him

^u "V^ ""^ J™ "'""" "■'''* *'™"' '» '^''^'P' "'<■>' beaime aware of various
rmL'mlhVbtrt "fstrhTad-^''''''^ "■'"«'■ """ »"""-'' '" '^'^"^^

samet'arthe'r rme"o«- ^ "" '"'""■' ''" ''™"' ""^^'^"^ ^ ' "'"= P'"™ « »'-

tree^^h^thirM"""' '° ' m'"J'"' ^'''J' '"5' ''°"" "' "'« ^f of "■>"">« beech
™t th, n- i? h .T' ""'^ '''."'y "^"P* '■='='""' '" distil upon them like rain ;
>et the mght was hot, dry, and sultry ; and ever and anon there fell those hiZu
creepers, whose slimy touch caused emotions of horror niaeous

Tudieu I • shouted the Frenchman, springing up again; 'I cannot -tand
H^l Corral Touche?™n'"r^?, "^ "'= ^i""'''' '""-'' q"artersTt MedeUi '
^ ttse t^es '• ^™' """''"' ■""• ''^' '"^ "" "•"" "•' devil is

Roused thus the corporal of the escort cocked his piece ; and as he fired the
^rh^f^'i^rJttlt^ '""''" "' '"^ ^"''■'» -'i "8"»-S-nke gleam^tJ!::

abo^ !hera. ''"'' '^"''' "^ " ^^^ """" '"""« '""" " '''''"'^''' ''''°"' ''^<='™ f«t
' Ouf I ' said the voltigeur, with a shudder of horror

These beeches bear strange nuts,' said Grant, as they hastily left the wood
and passed the remninder of the night on the open sward in flint of it When

fo lleeT'Th,"^c:^r,;'™' f'"'' '° 'f """" ""= P'"-^^^ ">■"' ""^y had first attempted
to sleep. The corpses of a man liaving a voluminous teaid! and a woman with
a profusion of long imd silky hair, were suspended from the branches ; and as
they swung mournfully and fearfully round in the morning wind, the cmws flew
av^y with an angrj. croak and a cry of horror burst from the 1 ps of Grant on
reeognising Mnnr.co el Barbado and— Juomio de Leon !

Three weeks after this Colquhoun Grant saw the long blue Outline 'of the

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Pyrenees undulating before him as lie npproaclicd the frontier ,>f iv.

Marmoivt, whom he m.w viewed as the assassin of that |°or naiden of Leon

hrm'frrhirp^r- ''™"^'' '™ ' ''""™'™'' °f "-^ >ctte"n:o:e{h::;:iea:ed
.ett::^ir:^L:ir,J!:^:^>;^^^;rc?r™;;,;^'''^i^['^::r'??r^

make a Highland head worth a pair of Fre "eh heel, ' ^'' "" '" " ' ^■''""""

»„,l I T"'!,-'" ??^°""~', Lieutenant Armand presented him to the governor
and bade h,m adieu Then Grant requested, in' the usual way, to e fur , Z
with a passport to Verdun, the greatest military p.ison in Franoe Tte '

ere^rthe'mornfirllSi""' ""'^ ^"^'T'^^ '^»' "^ .neant?o":ommen:e' o
trXTw ""'"""'] ''f '<=i* "'« gimson. Aware that, guarded as all the avenues

mZ^^lTTS"'^- "" ^y""""' P""" «■"<= by Freneh troops o every k"n I
flight towards Spain was impossible, he resolved to make the attemnt in 1 ,:
opposite, and consequently less to be suspeeted, direetion The momeU lie left

t'o't^rsuEuJb Tst^E^^T Tuf ■"" '"^ "."■'^P"'* '"'» the are"r,l"rep:ir g
^f li.1 u ^ V P^"' "'"'^'' ''■'"" '""« immemorial has been the Quarter

of the Portuguese Jews, he sold his silver epaulettes and riehlv laeed H?rd,k ,
uniform to a dealer in old garments, and reeei'ved in lieu ??e pS fro^ed su om
forage cap, and sabre of a French staff olTicer • he stuck the ern.. l,f flf i .°"';
Honour at his button-hole, and after promenVdfng Ing he supe,! nua'/'^r
repairing boldly to the •Eagle of France,' an hotel in ?L plnec de Gmml? L

e^li,:Vdt?r„"?o''dir^ "' ^'" -^^-'- "^"' ^" ".e tratarli:

;^r2;^rt:sp;-fjr^p^'^:^

night. Grant procured a card, and writing thereon ■ Caplain O'lieiUu ImZrili

FrenK^<i«eij;;;?:;i?i^^? - - -30, and glancing round ..r a
Of what regiment ? '
I Lacy's disbanded battalion of the Irish brigade '
• ^{l ' .'^1'' in what can I serve you, monsieur ?'
_ AIloK-ing me to join your party about to proceed to Paris '
_ Vou do rae infinite honour, M. O'Reillv."
' Thanks, general.'

if]

SCOTLAND FOR EVER

! 1

' ?rba*„ks o 'hrco'a™ I a"m attached to the stalt of M. .e Due dc Ra^s .

•Ih' oUlMimont. Pestel he U my greatest friend I M. Armand of the
3rd Voltigeurs bought me a letter from h.m, in «hich he says that a dear fnend
. if his would ioin me on my way to Paris.

•iZtod of brave Marmont,' said Grant ; ' '- »"« forgete me.

' So he has captured the notorious scaramouche, Capta.n Grant 1

' Yes ; a wonderful fellow that 1 ' „™,r«f » •

• iuite a devil of a man ; allons, let us go ; you have a horse, ot course ?

' No, M. le general.'
One of mine is at your service.'

[TaSttetJrrtSL^Zr™?;^:"^^^^^^^^^^^^^

S5igS^ns^;tit^«'^i^^ssrs^v=^

ih casfhU sVrviccs would not be forgotten.' Grant could -* f?™«' '^f '"^

that he would actually compose the well-known parody—
' Wh« keep BU.ir.l at Versailles imJ Marli,
Wha but the laiK wl' the bannttoks of barley .-

He spoke French fluently, having been a pupil ""^'^^•""^^■''''."^^"i^^hed
when thit notable rufiian taught French in Edmburgh, where, m 1774, he puWisnea

'"S^:t'rkId^tS;{rrS thinking .that the daring Joke had^heen

morning.' .

' How is your American named !

:^:r^l^^^sf"fL this very hour I - ^-''-" B-^; ^f «'^
--• J^^e ^J:^^:^.^:^ ^T^ZiT^^^ of a
prince incog. ^

* Your name, monsieur ?

ascertain that Monsieur Buck h.-.d departed this life at 9 a.m. and yet had received

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his papers at 9 f.h. the same day, our hero had left Paris Car behind him, and
was travelling post towards the mouth of the Loire.

On reacliing Nuntes, he repaired at once to Paimbceufl, twenty miles farther
down the river, where all vessels whose size was above ninety tons, usuaUy un-
loaded their cargoes ; and there he boarded the first vessel which had up the stars
and stripes of America, and seemed ready for sea. She proved to be the Ohio,
a fine bark of Boston, Jeremiah Buck, master.

* 'Tis fortunate,' said Grant, through his nose, as he was ushered into the
cabin of the Yankee ; * I am a namesake of yours, captain — Jonathan Buck, of
Cape Cod, seeking a cabin passage to Boston.'

' All right — let me see your passport:, stranger ? '

' Here it is, skipper.'

' Well, for a hundred and fifty dollars I am your man,' drawled the Boston
captain, who was smoking a long cuba ; ' but it is darned odd, stranger, that I
have been expecting another Jonathan Buck, my own nephew, from Paris ; he
is in the fish and timber trade, and hangs out at old Nantucket ; but he took
a run up by the dilly tu see the Toolerie, the I^over, and all that. Well, dam
my eyes, if this is not my nephew's passport I ' exclaimed the American suddenly,
while his eyes flashed with anger and suspicion. * Stranger, how is this ? '

In some anxiety. Grant frankly related how the document came into his
possession, and produced the letters of the secret agent, proving who he was,
beseeching the captain, as a man come of British blood and kindred, to assist
him ; for, if taken by the French, the dungeon of Verdun or Bitche. or worse,
perhaps, awaited him.

The Yankee paused, and chewed a quid by which he had replaced his cigar.
Natural sorrow for the loss of his relative, and the native honesty of an American
seamon, united to open the heart of the captain to our wanderer, and he agreed
to give him a passage in the Ohio to Boston, from whence he could reach Britain
more readily than from the coast of France, watched and surrounded as it was by
ships and gunboats, troops and gens d'arines, police, spies, passports, etc. Believ-
ing all arranged at last, Gmnt never left the ship, but counted every hour until
he should again find hi elf in Leon, the land of his faithful Juanna, with his
comrades of the Black Watch, and the eagles of Mamiont in front.

At last came the important hour, then the anchor of the Ohio was fished,
when her white canvas filled, and the stars and stripes of America swelled proudly
" -)m her gaff-peak, as she bore down the sunlit Loire with the evening tide;
t now an unlooked-for misfortune tool- piate. A French privateer, the famous
aean Bart, ran foul of her, and, by c»rr>iiig away her bowsprit and foremast,
brought down her niaintopmast too. Thus she was forced to run back to
Paimboeuff and haul into dock.

For our disguised captain of the 42nd Highlanders to remain in the docks,
guarded as they were by watchful gens d'arnies, was impossible ; thus, on being
furnished by the skipper of the Ohio with the coarse clothes of a mariner, and a
written character, stating that he was Nathan Prowse, a native of Nantucket,
' in want of a f hip,' he stained his face and hands with tobacco -juice, shaved off
his moustache, and repaired to an obscure tavern in the suburbs of Paimbceuff,
to find a lodging until an opportunity offered for his escape. Under his peajacket
he carried a pair of excellent pistols, which he kept constantly loaded ; and a
fine dagger or Albacete knife, a gift of pour Domingo de Leon.

As he sat in the kitchen of this humble house of entertainment, his eye wa»
caught by a printed placard above the mantelpiece. It bore the Imperial armi
with the cipher of the Emperor, and stated that ' the notorious spy, Cokjuhoun

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Grant, a captain in a Scottish regiment of the British nrniy, who lind wrought so
much mischief behind the lines of le Mariehal Due de Ragusc, in Leon, and who
had been brought prisoner to France, where he had broken his parole, was " iinder-
ing about, maintaining a system of espionage and protean disguises ; tliat he
had, lastly, assumed the name, character, and passport of an American citizen,
named Jonathan Buck, whom he had wickedly and feloniously munlcrcd and
robbed in the Hue de Rivoli at Paris ; that the sum of two thousand francs was
hereby offered for him dead or alive ; and that all prefects, ollicers, civil and
military, gens d'armes, and loyal subjects of the Emperor, by sea and land, were
hereby authorised to seize or kill the said Colquhoun Grant wherever and when-
ever they found him.'

With no small indignation and horror, the Highlander read this obnoxious
placard, which contained so much that wore the face of truth, with so much that
was unquestionably false.

* So Buck — whose papers I have appropriated— has been nuirdered ; poor
devil 1 ' W8S his first reflection ; ' what if the honest skipper of the Ohio should
see this precious document and suspect mel In that case I sho\ild be altogether
lost.'

He retired from the vicinity of this formidable placard, fcari-,;; that some
watchful eye might compare his personal appearance with the description it
contained ; though his costume, accent, and the fashion of his whiskers and
beard altered his appearance so entirely that his oldest friends at the mess would
not have recognised h™. He hastily retired upstairs to a miserable garret, to
think and watch, but not to sleep.

When loitering on the beach next evening, he entered into conversation with
a venerable boatman, named Roaul Senebier, and an exchange of tobacco-pouches
at once established their mutual goodwill. Grant said that ' he was an American
seaman out of a berth, and anxious to reach Portsmouth in England, where he
had left his wife and children.'

The boatman, an honest and unsuspicious old fellow, seemed touched by his
story, and offered to row him to a small island at the mouth of the Lohc, where
British vessels watered unmolested, and in retuTi allowed the poor inhabitants
to fish and traffic without interruption.

' I can feel for you, my friend,' said old Senebier ; ' for I was taken prisoner
at the battle of Trafalgar, and was seven years in the souterrains of the ChdUau
d'Editrtbourg, separated from my dear wife and little ones, and when 1 returned
I found them all lying in the churchyard at PaimlxEuff.'

' Dead I— what, all 1 '

' All, all save one — the plagie, the plague I '

* Land me on this isle, then, and ten napoleons shall be yours,' said Grant
joyfully I and in twenty minutes after they had left the crowded wharves, the
glaring salt-pans which gleam on the left bank of the Loire, and all its maze of
masts and laden lighters, as they pulled down with the flow of the stream and
the ebb-tide together. The fisherman had hij nets, floats, and fortunately some
fish on board ; so, if overhauled hy any armed authority, he could pretend to
liave been at his ordinary avocation. They touched at the island, and were
lold by some of the inhabitants that not a British ship was in the vicinity, but
that a French privateer, the terrible Jean Bitri, was piowUng about in these waters,
and that the isle was consequently unsafe for any person who might be suspeetet:
of being a British subject ; ^j, with a heart that began to sink. Grant desired
old Raoul Senebier to turn his prow towards Paimbceuff.

Morning was now at hand, and the sun as he rose reddened with a glow of

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E^a appeared t„ Ihe^uuVwlri and ta th, r i •' ''"' ^''^'^"'y " '"■'ge white
was one of our ChaLd sa3ron rr»^f TJ!"^ ""'^ ''"'™' ''"P'= """ ^he

her. The wind Cme iS rd Suhe d^Th"*, '"^" "**""" '" ^'" '^"'''^
but stiJI the ship^Tar ff ami 1? ! , ^^J^' "" T" '"SK"^'' "' ">eir oars,

on. and the strong eurrentwheh^t'lrf' Z? '""^''J ",^" °™""'8 ">""
towards the eoast of Fmn^ fu™ „' tl« s m Li'°'?/^'*"",">' '■"''P' '''' '»'''
found themselves suddenlHo e1o a bw tettfrl' a .h"?7' "'"'."'^ ?«"'™
across the water, raisine it lilte a snont Wv„i!PfV *''°' /«"" which boomed
followed, tearing the wavef into f„„,rcb,e ty ' """"""^ '"" ""-"■"

Gra'nfat'nc^™" " ""' '"'"' "'™-'" » ' exclaimed Armand. who knew
min'd^'^^t^&ui'oTd'^omraJ^rV ""^''^ "j."""' "'"^ '"'""'■^'''» P '«■"="'

■ I'rMM,r'^' * ^'>i«,f ' «>I<«1 Annand, with g t„o„™ anil.

iike::!;foftoi'^irme,or "^""' '" "'"^^ ^"-^ ■'%H't^h^t'^!:;:;„ded

' "I.™"')'""''' '*'''=''>''' ^"8"*= ^''««'. of thirty-six guns.'

' Who the devil are you ? '

' A prisoner of war just escaped,"

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' Brnvo ! * cried anuther voice, which seemed to be that of the officer of the
wutch ; * sheer alongside, and let us see what like you are. Stand by with the
man ropes — look alive there I '

Grant shook the hard hand of Raoul Senebier, gave him five more gold
napoleons, and. a moment nfter, found himself upon the solid oak deck of a
spunking British frigate. Now he was all but at home, and his protcus-like
transformations and disguises were at an end. A single paragraph from the
History of the War of the Penintula will suffice to close this brief story of Colquhoun
Gnint's adventures, of which I could with ease have spun three orthodox volumes,
octavo.

* When he reached England, he obtained permission to choose a French
officer of equal rank with himself to send to France, that no doubt might remain
about the propriety of his escape. In the first prison he visited for this purpose,
great was his astonishment to find the old fisherman (Raoul Senebier of Paim-
bceuif) and his real son, who had meanwhile been captured, notwithstanding a
protection given to them for their services. But Grant's generosity and benevol-
ence were as remarkable as the qualities of his understanding ; he soon obtained
their release, and sent them with a sum of money to France. He then returned
to the Peninsula, and within four months ^m the date of his first capture, he was
again on the Tormes, watching Marmont's army I Other strange incidents of his
life could be told,' continues General Napier, ' were it not more fitting to quit a
digression already too wide ; yet I was unwilling to pass unnoticed this generous,
spirited, and gentle-minded man, who, having served his country nobly and ably
in every climate, died not long since, exhausted by the continual hardships he
had endured.'

But his name is still remembered in the regiment by which he was beloved ;
and his adventures, his daring, and presence of mind were long the theme of the
B'uck Watch at the mess-table, the bivouac, and the guard-room fire.

THE SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS

Tub Sutherland men were so well grounded in moral duties and religious prin-
ciples, that when stationed at the Cape of Good Hope, and being anxious to enjoy
the advantages of religious instruction, agreeably to the tenets of their national
church ; and there being no reUgious service in the garrison, except the customary
one of reading prayers to the soldiers on parade ; the men of the 98rd regiment
formed themselves into a congregation, appointed elders of their own number,
engaged, and paid a stipend (collected from the soldiers) to Dr. George Thorn
(who had gone out with the intention of teaching and preaching to the Caffres),
and had divine service performed, agreeably to the ritual of the Established Church
of Scotland. Their expense^- were so well regulated, that while contributing to
the support of their clergyman, from the savings of their pay, they were enabled
to promote that social cheerfulness which is the true attribute of pure religion
and of a well-spent life. While too many soldiers were ready to indulge in that
vice which, more than any other, leads to crime in the British army, and spent
much of their money in liquor, the Sutherland men indulged in the cheerful amuse-
ment of dancing ; and in their evening meetings were joined by many respectable
inhabitants who were happy to witness such scenes among the common soldiers
in the British service. In pddition to these expenses, the soldiers regularly re-
mitted money to their relations in Sutherland. In the rase of such raeii, disgraceful

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punishment is u unnecessary as it would be pernicious. Indeed, so remote was
the Idea of such a measure, in regard to them, that when punishments were to bo
mnicted o" others, and the troops in camp, garrison, or quarters assembled to
witness their execution, the presence of the Sutherland Highlanders, eith. r of the
llencib'es or of the line, was often dispensed with, the effect of terror, as a check
in cnme, being, in their case, uncalled for— ' as examples of that nature were not
necessary for such honourable soldiers 1 ' Such is the character of a national
or district corps of the present day.

Their conduct at the Cape did not proceed from any tcmporarv cause. It
wa.s founded on principles uniform and permanent. Wlicn these "men disem-
barked at Plymouth in August 1814, the inhabitants were both surprisci and
gratified. On such occasions it had been no uncommon thing for soldiirs to
»pcnd the money they had saved in taverns and gin-sli,.ps. In the present case
•!u n-it" °' S,""'^rf»n'l '^"'^ seen in b;.oksel!ers' shops, supplying themselves
with Bibles, and such books and tracts as they required. Yet, as at the Tape
where their religious habits were so free from all fanatical gloom that they in-
dulged in dancing and social meetings, so here, while expending their money on
twoks, they did not neglect their personal appearance, and the habcrduslicrs'
shops had also their share of trade, from the purchase of additional feathers to
their bonnets and such extra decorations as the correctness of mihtary regulations
allow to be introduced into the uniform. While they were thus mindful of them-
se ves, improving their minds and their personal appearanee, such of them as had
relations in Sutherland did not forget the change in their condition occasioned
by the loss of their lands and the operations of the new improvements. During
the short penod that the regiment was quartered at Plymouth upwards of £.500
were lodged in one banking-house to be remitted to Sutherland, exclusive of
many sums sent through the post-office and by officers. Some of these sums
exceeded £20 from an individual soldier.

There had been Httle change in tlie character of this respectable corps ; courts-
martial have been very unfrequent. Twelve and fifteen months have intervened
without the necessity of assembling one ; and in the words of a general officer
who reviewed them in Ireland, they exhibited ' a picture of military discipline and
moral rectitude ; and m the opinion of another eminent commander, ' although
the junior regiment in His Majesty's service, they exhibit an honourable example
worthy the imitation of all.' On another occasion, the character, discipline, and
mtenor economy of the 98rd were declared to be ' altogether incomparable ' •
and in similar language have they been characterised by every general officer
who commanded them. General Craddock, now Lord Howden, when this corps
embarked from the Cape of Good Hope in 1814, expressed himself in the following
terms. Describing ' the respect and esteem of the inhabitants, with their regret
at partmg with the men, who will ever be borne in remembrance as kind friends
and honourable soldiers,' he adds : ' The commander of the forces anxiouslv joins
m the public voice, that so approved a corps, when called forth into the more
active scenes that now await them in Europe, will confirm the well-known maxim,
that the most regular and best conducted troops in quarters are those who form
the surest dependence, and will acquire the most renown in the field.'

Such were these men in garrison, and such the expectation founded on their
prmciplcs. How thoroughly they were guided by honour and loyalty in the field
was shown at New Orleans. Although many of their countrvmen who had
emigrated to America were ready and anxious to receive them, there was not an
instance of desertion j nor did one of those who were left behind, wounded or
prisoners, forget their allegiance, and remain in that country, at the same time that

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desertions from the British army were but too frequent. Men like these do credit
to the peasantry of their country, and contribute to raise the national character.

Kniiii Thr Itmk -f »-alliih Aitfrilo/r.
X

THE SOLDIER'S DREAM
By Thomas Campbell

Our i)uj,'lc"5 sjing truce — fur the iiight-eluud had lowered.
And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ;

And thousands had sunk on the ground ovcriM.wcrcd,
The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die.

When reposing tli,it night on my pallet of straw.
By the woll'scaring faggot that guanled the slain ;

At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw.
And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again.

Methought from the battle-fleld's dreadful array.

Far, far I had roamed on a desolate track :
'Twas Autumn, — and sunshine arose on tlie way

To the home of my fathers, that welcomed me back.

I (lew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft
In life's morning march, when my bosom was young ;

I ht^rd my own mountain goats bleating aloft.
And knew the sweet strain that the eorn-reapers sung.

They pledged me the wine-cup, and fondly I swore.
From my home and my weeping frie.ids never to part ;

My little ones kissed me a thousand times o'er.
And my wife sobbed aloud in her fulness of heart ;

Stay, stay with us— rest, thou art weary and worn ;

And fain was their war-broken soldier to stay ;
But sorrow returned with the dawning of morn.

And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away.

THE SILVER DRUM

A TALE OF Tl.E HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY

By Neil Munro

Fifty yards to the rear of tlie dwcllinghouse the studio half hid itself amongst
young elms and laurel bushes, at its outside rather like a granary, internally like
a chapel, the timbers of the roof exposed and umber-stamed, with a sort of clere-
story for the top-light, a few casts of life-size statues in the corners, and two or
three large bas-reliefs of Madonnas and the like by Donatello helping out the
ecclesiastical illusion. It was the last place to associate with the sound of drums.

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ami yet 1 s,t r..r twenty niiiiutc-!, sonictiiucs st,ui„„l, ^jinctinics fasdiKitwl, by
the upnmr of assc. sk.n. The seulplor who pluyed might, by one less i.nenn
ventional, be l,»ke<l upon as seriously saerifieing his dignity in u perforinnnoe v,
meongnious with 1 , age and situation. Uut I have always loved the -vhin.sical ■
1 am myself eonsi.lcred somewhat eccentric, and there is a rapporl between artistic
souls that pennits-mdecd induces-some display of fantasy or folly when Ihcv
get uito each other s society, apart from the intolerant folks who would think it
lum cy for a man of over mWdle-age to indulge in the contrc-danee of ' Petronella '
nt a harve~t home, or display any accomplishment in the jews'-harp

Urqubarf at the time when I sat to him. was a man ..f sixty jcars or there-
. i;"ii .' 'T '"■ '"'"^'■ed up and down the floor of his workshop with the step .,f
a hill-l.re. lad his whole body sharing the rhythm of his beating, his clean-shaven
inec with the flnsli of a winter apple, the more noticeable in contrast with the linen
snioek he iiseil as an overall while at work among his clay. The deep, old-lashioncil
side-drum swinging at his groin seemed to have none of a drum's monotony It
expressed (at all events to me that have some fanev) innumerable ecstasies and
emotions-alarnis, entrfjdies, defianecs, gaieties, and regrets, the dreadful senti-
ment of r,,rlorn hopes, the murmur of dubious battalions in countries of ambush.
Ihe sound of the <lrum is. unhappily, beyond typographical expression, though
long custom makes us complacently accept ' rat-a-tattat ' or • rub-a-dub-dul) ' as
quite explanatory of its every phase and accent ; but I declare the sculptor
brought from it Ihe very pang of love. Alternated with the martial uproar of
rouses, retreats, chamades, and marches that made the stu.lio shake, it rose into
the clerestory and lingered in the shades of the umber r.>of-this gentle combina-
tion of taps and roulades, like the appeal of one melinJiously .seeking admission at
his mistress s door. '^

' You had no idea that I handled sticks so terriflcally ?' said he, relinquishing the
instrument at last, and returning to his proper bisk of recording my lineaments
in the preparatory clay.

.1, 'J"" play marvellously. Mr. Urquhart.' I said, astonished. ' I had no idea
that you added the drum to your— to your accomplishments.'

' Well, there you have me revealed— something of a complin.ent to you. I
assure you, for I do not beat my drum for everybody. If I play well it is, after all,
no w.uidcr. for with a side-drum and a pair of sticks I earned a living for seven
years, and travelled among the most notable scenes of Europe'

'^,V, ' r,'''' T'' "»''"*■ He pinched the clay corefiilly to make the presenti-
incnt of the lobe of my ear. and stood back from his work a moment to study the
e I leer. ^

• Yes,' he siiid. ' few people know of it ; and perhaps it is as well, for it might
not be counted wholly to the credit of an R.S.A. if it were known ; but for seven
years I played the side-drum in the ranks of the 71st. I played from Torres
\ edras to the Pyrenees, at Vimiern, Corunna, Talavcra, Busaco, Ciudad Uodrigo,
Badajos, Quatre Bras, and Waterloo. Lord I the very names go dirling through

my heart. They were happy days. I assure you. when I— when I '

Thumped the skin,' I ventured foolishly, as he paused to make a line of some
importance on my clfigy.

He corrected me with a vexed air.

' Thumped, my dear sir, is scarcely the word I should use under the circum-
s ances. That hackneyed verb of every d.dt who has neither ear nor imagination
should not be chosen by a fellow-artist, a man of letters, to describe the roll
of the drum. My happiest days, as I was about to say. were when I carried
KUdaltrm s silver drum, for which this one is but an indifferent substitute.'

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■ \>i-il. «t least.' saiil I lumdy. ' the drummer of ll.c 7lbt h»» gone pretty far in
another art than music' ,

• 11 11 very K. !k1 of y..u I., my sn.' remnrkcil Urquhiirt with quiet diifiuty ami
an >.ld-fa»hiol.ed Iww. ' I trust, liy and \>y. Willi assiduity l<. become us ko(»I
a sculptor as I was a drummtT.' ... . , t - r n „

• How did you happen to join the army t I asked, anxious to Imve him follow
UD SO promisinii an introiluclit»n. .

• Because 1 was a fwl. Mmd, I do not regret it, for I had at the same time, in
my folly, such n^cmnral.lc and happy experiences as quite impn.perly (as you
miiiht think) never conic to the .loorstcp of the very wise, Still 1 joined the army
in I fool', escapade, resenting what seemed to iiic the insuf crahlc rcstrictiom of a
Scottish m«nse. My father was incunihcnt ol a parish half ll.nhl.ind. In. I Um-

laiid. At sixteen I c«me home from tklinbiir|!h, and iny llrst sc, i of the Ijni-

versity there ; at sixteen and a half 1 mutinied imainst sixpence a week ol pocket-
money, .nd the prospect of the Divinity Hall for one {as I Iclt) dc.si«iied .;v heaven
for art, and with a borrowed name and an excellently devised tale (d on)hH,:hood
took a bounty in the terntonal regiment. They put me to th.' drnnis. Ihey p.-o-
fessc.1 to find m, so well sniUd there tliat they kept me at them all he time 1 was
a king's man. in spite of all my protests, and there, if you arc in the imoikI for «
story. I had an experience. . , . , . . j . ti..„

'The corps had two drums of silver, one of which was entrusted to rne. fhey
were called '' KUdalton's drums." in eomplinicnt to their donor, from whose lands
no fewer than four companies of the 71st had been emiHidied. They were hand-
some instruments, used only for stately occasion,, and mine, at cast, so much
engaged my fancy that I liked to keep it shuiing like a mu-ror ; and the cords and
tassels of silk-pleated as we were told by Kil lalton's daughter— appealed so
much to the dandiacal in me, 1 fretted to have them wet on a parade. Von can
fancy, therefore, my distress when my darling was subjected to the rough work
and hazards of the sack of Ciudad HiKlrigo. , „. , . ,„., „_ .

• Our corps on that occasion was in the Light Division. WTule Fict<Mi s men,
away to our left and nearer the river, were to attack the great breach made in the
ramparts by our guns on the Tcssons, we were to rush into a lesser breach further
east The night was black and cold to that degree 1 could not see the fortress at
a hundred yards, and could scarcely close my fingers on the drnnisticks as I beat
tor the advance of N;.pier's storming party. The walls we threatened burst in
tongues of flame and peals of thunder. Grape-shot tore through our three hundred
as we crossed the ditch ; but in a moment we were in the gup, the bayo.iets busy
as it were among wine-skins, the tooting slimy with blood, and a single drum (my
comrade fell mortally wounded in the ditch) beat inside the walls for the column
outside to follow us. . , , . ^ j l i ■ i ■

' Yes, yes,' I said, impatient, for Urquhart drew back abstracted, checking his
tale to survey the effect of his last touch upon my eyebrows.

' Why,' said he, ' I hardly thought it would interest you,' and then went on

' '• I'ney'not tell you,' he said, ' how quick was our conquering of the French,
once we had got through the walls. My drum was not done echomg back from
Sierra de Francisca (as I thmk the name was), when the place was ours. And then
-and then— there came the sack I Our men went mad. These were da. s when
rapine and outrage were to be expected from all victorious troops ; there might
be some excuse for the hatred of the Spaniard on the part of our men whose com-
rades wounded, had been left to starve at Takvera ; but surely not for this.

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They gi>rge(t with wine, they swamictl in tiiwlcss Kquiitls tlirnii)(h every street and
alley, tiwcpt tlmtiifih every dwelhnf{, itilihiiiK and burning ; the night in u while
was white with tlret, and the t«>wn was horrible with ithriekH und random tnusktrt
shots and drunken sun^is.

' Sonic time in the siniill hours of the mnniiii^, trying tu find my own rt'^itrirnt,
1 cume with my dnim (o the head of what was Joidttlcss the muxt drenill'nl street
that night in Kiirope. It was a lane rather than h street, uimhiiully narrow, with
dwelling!! on either aide so high that it had M>nic bembtance to h mountain pas**.
At that hovir, if you will credit me, it sceinctl the ver> gullet of the pit ; the far
end of it in fliimes, the middle of it held by pillagers who fought each other for the
plunder from the houses, white from it cume the most astounding noises — oaths in
English and INirtngiiese, threats, cntrcuties, commands, the shrieks of women, the
crackling of burning lindwr, uceitsionHlly the firing of wcu|>ons, and through it all,
constant, sud beyo'ni expression, u deep, low murnnir, intensely mclHntlioiy. made
up of the wail of the .Milked city.

' As I stood lisl'.ning some one culled out, " Urunnner ! "

' 1 turned, to And there had just eome up n gcnerid ofliccr and his stuff, with a
picket of ten men. The general himself stepped forward at my salute, and put
his hand on my drum, that shone brightly in the light of the contlugmtions.

* " What the deuce do you mean, sir,' said he with heat. " by coming into
action with my brother's drum ? Ynu know very well it is not for these
occasions."

* '* ITie ordinary dn'nis of the regiment were lost on Monday lust, sir," I said,
" when wc were fording the Agueda through the broken ice." And then, with a
bnppy thought, I added, " Kildalton's dnims are none the worse for taking part
in the siege of Ciudud Uudrigo. This was the first drum through the walls."

' He looked shrewdly ut me and gave a little smite. '* H'm," he muttered,
*' perhaps not, perhaps not, after all. My brother would have been pleased, if he
had been alive, to know his drums were here this night. Where is the other one ? "

' *' The last I saw of it, sir," I answered, " was in the ditch, and Colin Archibald,
corporal, lying on his stomach over it,"

' *' Dead ? "

' " Dead, I think, sir."

* '* H'm I " snid the General. " I hope my brother's dium 's all right, at any
rate." He turned and cried up the picket. " I want you, drummer, ' he said,
"to go up thut lane with this picket, playing the assembly. You understand ?
These devils fighting and firing there have already shot ut three of my ofiicers,
and are seemingly out of their wits. We will give them a last chance. I don't
deny there is danger in what I ask you to do, but it has to be done. The men in
there are mostly of Pack's Portuguese and the dregs of our own corps. If they
do not come out with you 1 shall send in a whole regiment to them and butter their
brains out against the other end, if the place is, as I fancy, a eul-de-sac. March I "

' I went before the picket with my drum rattling and my heart in my mouth.
The pillagers came round us jeering, others assailed us more seriously by throwing
&om upper windows anything they could conveniently lay hand on (assuming it
was too large or too valueless to pocket), but we were little the worse till in a
lamentable moment of passion, one of the picket fired his musket at a window. A
score of pieces flashed back in response, und five of our company fell, while wc went
at u double for the end of the lane.

' " By heaven I " cried the sergeant, when we reached it. " Here 's a fine
thing 1 " The general had been right — it was a cul-de-sac 1 There was nothing
for us but to return.

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:>^'^^^^2:z:r':::tL^\^^^ n

There were now. you lousl know but Ti. , f .^.^ i : """" """' '*""""

nrjp.,rcd for .nytiiin, ...I, but ':;,e'",:„7l ':.; ^',hT ^ X.m,'" "77' "'".'

Ihe vnloroM, prei>are<l to deS h. L .^ « «>urtyard where we found

andai tl:u t;rewdl™ut™t'e:r '^"''•'' r '''>'r"' "■■'"■'> «'>".'P".u„,
and s:s !;; ^cr r^s-^K:!; :'::■ ;r 'ti'- •'-'■■ ^'™« "■ -'-

bullet in his shoulder.' " ™ ""a Men plaj ing. He was unconseious, witha

«>ayS;'Xerre ii';X"*""" '" "-"•' '■•™'" '"^ l"^'"' > Oi^h I sat,

* This looks marvcllouslv like stuff fnr n ttn«. ' i i ^ i ■

whaViH J'Trly'-a^li.irinrdenr-ET^r^r"™''''.""' "'• ' ^"" "«•
Peninsular c«mpaigVcameMrxperie.;ocs I Z"^^^^^ "'"' """ """"«*> "■«

King George himselff' fortnight I would not have changed places with

^^^ -Jlr. Urquhart,' I said, ' 1 have a premonition. Here con.cs in the essential

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The Kculptor ■iiiiled,

' Hrrc. iiulcrd,' he suiil, • nmics iti Ihc liulv. Thrrc an-, I tlncl, iin MimristH r„r
a novch«t. Wc were onr .lay (lo resume my story) in Ihc bursh square, where u
iiurket wai bcmR heW. and h(i|iefi were entertained by our euptain Ihnt a few
landwanl ladi niiRht nibble ut the -hilMtiu. Over one side of the square lowered n
tail, whitewashnl house of many windows ; anil as I, with a uniform tunic Ihui
w^as llu pride of the regimental tailor. Ave feet eleven, twenty-one years of aor, and
the vanity of a veteran, (ilayed my best to half a doiin iifcs. I noticed the luily at a
wiiidow-thc only window in all the massive house front to manifest nnv interest
111 our presence or iwrformance. I turned my silver drum a little round'upon mv
leg that it might reflect more da/.zlii gly the light of the aflerncon sun. and threw
into my beats and rolls the most graveful style that was at my command, all the
while with an eye on niailanic. It was my youthful conceit that I had caught her
fancy when, a little later -our sergeants busy among the rustics— she came out
from the house and over to where I sat apart licsidc my dnim. on the steps of the
market iross. She was younger than inys-lf, a figure so airy and graceful, you
would swear that if she likc<l she could dance u|H,n blueliell, without bruising a
petal : she hii'. hair the colour of winter bracken in sunshine, and the merriest
smile.

' "Excuse me.' s<.id she, " but I rimt look at the darling dnim-the sweet
drum, and she caught the silken cords in her fingers, and ran a iialni of the
daintiest hand I had ever seen over the shining barrel.

' I thought she might, with more creditable human sentiment have had less
mterest in my drum and mole in me, but displayed my instrument with the best
glace 1 could command.

"Do you know why 1 am so interested ? " she asked in a little, looking at
me out of deep brown eyes in which I saw two little red couted drummers, a thing
w-hich gave me back my vanity and made me answer only with a smile. }Ut
cheek for the Brst time reddened, and she hurried to explain. "They are
Kildalton's drums. Mr. Fraser of Kildalton was my father, who is dead, and my
mother i aead, too ; and I pleated and tied these cords and tassels first. How
beautifully you keep them I "

' " Well, Miss Fraser," said I, " I assure you I could not keep them better if I
tried ; but, after this, I shall have a better reason than ever for keeping them at
their best." A soldier's speech she smiled at as slic turned away. As she went
into the tall white house again she paused on the threshold, and looked back for
a moment at me, smiling, and for the first tune since I took the bounty I rued mv
bargain, and thought I was meant for something more dignified than drumming
From that hour I lived in the eyes of Kildalton's daughter Marjory. Once a week
we went fifing and drumming tluyjugh the square. She was on these occasions
never absent fi«m her window ; there was never a smile a-wanting for the smart
young gentleman who beat the silver drum. A second and u third time she came
into the square to speak to mc. I made the most of my opportunities, and she was
speedily made to discover in the humble dnimr . r a fellow of race and education
a fellow with a touch of poetry, if you plea She was an orphan, as I have
indicated— the ward of an uncle, a general, ut the time abro: .1. She lived on the
surviving fortune of Kildalton in the tall white house with an cldcrlv aunt and a
servant. At our thild interview— we have a way of being urKOiit iii the army-
she had trysted to meet me that evening in the wood behind the town.

' Let me do the girl justice, and say that the drum of Kildalton brought her
there, and not the drummer. At least, she was at pains to tell me so, for I had
mentioned to her, with some of tho fjilt of poet. I have mentioned, how in-

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fliiitely varied were the possibilities of an mstrimeut she would never have a
proper chance to judge of in *he routine of a fift and drum parade.

' jMy billet was at the back of the town, on the verge of the wood, with the
window of my room opening on a =ort of hunting path that went winding through
the heart of what I have called a wood, but what in actual fact was a forest of
C" ,id- rable dimensions. I went out by the window that evening with ray drum,
and walked, as had been arranged, about a mile among the trees till I came to a
narrow glen that cleft the hills, a burn of shallow water from the peaty uplands
bickering at the bottom of it. A half moon swung like a halbcrt over the heights
that were edged by enormous fir-trees, and the wood was melancholy with the con-
tinuous call of owls. They were soon silenced, for I began to play the silver drum.

' I began with the reveille, though it was a proper hour for the tattoo, playing
it Kghtly, .w that while it silenced the hooting owls it did not affright the wh-i|e
forest. She came through the trees timidly, clothed, I remember, in a gown "
green. She might have been the spirit of the pine-planting ; she might have bet
a dryad charmed from the swinging boughs. " Marjory I Marjory I " I cried,
my heart more noisy than my drum had been, and clasped her to my arms.
" Here 's a poor drummer, my dear," I said, " and you a queen. If you do not
love me you were less cruel to take this dirk and itab me to the heart, than act the
heartless coquette."

' She faintly struggled. Her hair fell loose in a lock or two from under her
hat, surged on my shouliler, and billowed about my lips. Her cheek was warm ;
her eyes threw back the challr- -e of the silver moon over the tops of pine.

' " For a young gentleman I'rom a kirk manse, Master Drummer, you have
considerable impertinence," said she, panting in my arms.

' " My name, dear Marjory, is George, as I have told you," I whispered, and I
kissed her.

' " George, dear George,' said she, " have done with folly 1 Let me hear the
drumming and go home."

' I swung her father's drum again before me and gave, in cataracts of sound,
or murmuring cascades, the sentiments of my heart.

' " Wonderful ! Oh, wonderful ! " she cried, entranced j so I played on.

'The moon went into a cloud ; the glade of a sudden darkened ; I ceased my
playing, swung the drum again behind, and turned to Marjory.

' She was gone I

' I called her name as I ran through the forest, but truly she was gone.'

Urquhart stopped his story and eagerly dashed some lines upon the clay.
' Pardon I ' he said. 'Just like that for a moment. Ah! that is something
like it I ' *

' Well, well I ' I cried, ' and what followed ? '

' I think — indeed, I know — she loved me, but — I went back to the war without
a single word from her again.'

' Oh, to the deuce with your story I ' I cried at that, impatient. ' I did not
bargain for a tragedy.'

' In truth it is something of a farce, as you will discover in a moment,' said the
sculptor. ' Next day the captain sent for me. " Do you kjiow General Fraser ? "
said he, looking at a letter he held in his hand. I told him I had not the honour.
" Well," said he, " it looks as if the family had i curious penchant for the drum,
to judge from the fact that his brother gave yours to the regiment, and also " —
here he smiled shyly — " from the interest of his niece. He is not an hour returned
from Spain to his native town when he asks me to sf d you with your drum to
his house at noon."

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' " Very good, sir," I answered, with my heart thundering, and went out of
the ruuin most hugely puzzled.

* 1 went at ntwn tu the tall white house, and was shown into a room where sat
Mr'^ory, white to the lips, beside the window, out of which she looked after a single
Lup^lc'^a 'rl'xnce at me. A middle-aged gentleman in mufti, with an empty sleeve,
stoiid b(.(>v ,e her, and closely scrutinised myself and my instrument a^ I entered.

■ ' T'lis is the — the person you have referred to ? " he asked licr, and she
ai'swen i with a sob and an inclination of her head.

■ "' You have come — you are reputed to have come of a respectable family," he
said then, addressing me ; " you have studied at Edinburgh ; you have, I am told,
some pretensions to being something of a gentleman."

' " I hope they are no pretensions, sir," I answered warmly. " My people are
as well known and reputable as any in Argyll, though I should be foolishly beating
a drum."

' " Very good," said he, in no way losing his composure. " I can depend on
getting the truth from you, I suppose ? You were \\ith the 71st as drummer at
Ciudad Rodrigo ? ""

' " I was, sir," I replied. " Also at Badajos, at Talavera, Busaco "

' " An excellent record t " he interrupted. " I might have learned all about it
later had not my wound kept me two months in hospital after Ciudad. By the
way, you remember being sent as drummer witii a picket of men down a lane ? "

"" I started, gave :i careful look at him, and recognised the general whose life I
had doubtless saved from the pillaging Portuguese.

' " I do, sir," I answered. " It was you yourself who sent me."

' He turned with a little air of triumph to Marjorj-. ■" 1 told you so, my dear,"
said he. " I got but a distant glimpse of him this afternoon, and thought I could
not be mistaken." And Marjory sobbed.

' ■' .My lad," he said, visibly restrauiing some emotion, " I could ask your drum-
major to take the cords of Kildalton, my brother's drum, and whip you out of u
gallant corps. I sent you with a picket — a brave lad, as I thought any fellow
should be who played Kildalton's drum — and you came back a snivelling poltroon.
Nay, nay 1 " he cried, lifting up his hand and checking my attempt at an ex-
planation. " You came out of that infernal lane whimpering like a child, after
basely deserting your comrades of the picket, and made the nmtilated condition
of your drum the excuse for refusing my order to go back again, and I, like a fool,
lost a limb in showing you how to do yourd-ity."

' " But, general " I cried out.

' " Be oft with you ! " he cried. " Another word, and I shall have you
thrashed at the triangle."'

' He fairly thrust me from the room, and the last I heard was Marjory's sobbing.

' Next day I was packed off to the regimental depot, and sonic weeks later
played a common drum at Sala-nanca.'

The sculptor nibbed the clay from his haiuls and took off his overall.

' That will do to-day, I think,' said he. ' I am much better pleased than I was
yesterday,' and he looked at his work with satisfaction.

' But the story, my dear Mr, Urquhart. You positively must give me its
conclusion 1 ' I demanded.

' Why in the world should that not be its conclusion ? ' said he, drawing a wet
sheet over the bust. * Would you insist on the hackneyed happy ending ? '

' I am certain you did not take your quittance from the general in that way.
You surely wrote to Marjory or to him with an explanation ? '

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|l i

The scujptur smiled.

' ^\^^' I ' "ifd he. • Do you think that so obvious an idea would not occur

J J J reflect agau). I pray you, on the circumstances-an obscure and dc-

gmdcd druminer-the daughter of one of the oldest families in the Highlands-the
damning circumstantiality of her uncle's evidence of my alleged poltiionery. My
explanation was too incredible for pen and paper; and the Htn ■> himself, the
nmn who had brought the disgrace upon me, was beyond my identification, even
had I known where to look for him.

'And yet, Mr. Urquhart,' I insisted, all my instincts as romancer assuring me
..r some other conclusion to a tale that had opened on a note so cheerful, ' I feel
sure It was neither a tragedy nor a farce in the long run '

,1 '^J''";y™ «'*'¥'"•' l!'°°"''''*'''™"'"8- • It -vas my drum that lost me
the lady before ever I met her, as it were, and it was but fair that my drum should
be the means of my recovenng her ten years later. A re-shuffling of the cards of
lortune in my (amUy brought mc into a position where I was free to adopt the
career of Art ; and by-and-by I had a studio of my own in Edinburgh. It was the
day of the portoait bust m marble. To have one's own effigy in white, paid for
by one s omi se f , m one s own haU, was, in a way, the fad of fashionable E<linburgh.

It was profitable for the artist, I admit, but— but '

' But it palled,' I suggested.

„ "t^'^'Ti? ?*,"'' ' J.^"' *? "^^ "" "PP'^"™"" "f every fresh client, and it
was then that I sought the s<.lace of this drum. When a sitter had gone for the
day I drummed the vexaUon out of me, feeling that without such relief I could
never recover a respect for myself. And by-and-by I began to discover in the in-
strument someUimg more than a relief for my feelings of revolt against the com-
mercial demands on my nrt. I found in it an inspiration to rare emotions • I
lound in It memory. I found, in the reveilles and chamades that I played in fields
of war and m the fore to my Marjory, love revived and mingled with a sweet
regret, and from these-memory, regret, and love-I fashioned what have been my
most successful sculptures. '

' One day a gentleman came with a commission for his own portrait. It was
General Fraserl Of course, he did not recognise me. Was it likely that he should
guess that the popular sculptor and the lad he had sent in disgrace from the tall
white house m the distant burgh town were one ! Nor did I at first reveal myself
rerhaps, mdeed, he would never have discovered my identity had not his eves
lallen on my drum. ^

stru'melr ""^ """^ * nulitary subject lately ! " he said, indicating the in-

Vu/',"; K^"^"?''" I answered on an impulse. " That is a relic of some years of
youthful foUy when I played Kildalton's silver drum, and it serves to solace my
bachelor solitude. ' ■'

! !! J?™™"^ ' " he e™d, " you, then, are the drummer of Ciudad Rodrigo ! "
1 he same, I answered, not without a bitterness. " But a verv different
man from the one you imagine." And then I told my story. He listened in a
cunous mingling of apparent shame, regret, and pleasure, and when I had ended
was almost piteous m his plea for pardon. " The cursed thing is," he said, " that
Marjory maintains your innocence till this very day."

That she should have tliat confidence in mc," said I, " is something of a
ITweU "'"'"'" "'" ''"'' "" ^'^"' ' '™^' ^^^ Marjory-I trust your niece

' The general pondered for a moment, then made a proposition.

' " I think, Mr, Urquhart," said he, " that a half-winged old mm is but a poor

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subject for any sculptor's cliisd, mid, with your kind permission, 1 sliould prefer
to liave a portrait of Miss Jlarjory, whom I can swear you will find quite worthy
of your genius."

I And so,' snid Urquhart iji conclusion, ' and so, indeed, she was.'
' There is but one dtnouemml possible,' I said, with profound conviction, and,
as I said it, a bar of .son},' rose in the garden, serene and clear and unexpected like
the first morning carol of a bird in birchen shaws. Then the door of the studio
flung open, and the singer entered, with the melody checked on her lips when
she saw the unexpected stranger. She hail hair tlic colour of winter bracken in
sunshine, and the merriest smde.

' My daughter Marjory,' said the sculptor. ■ Tell your mother,' he added,
' that 1 bring our friend t(» huiellcon.'

CHAPTER VI

Quatre Bras and Waterloo

1815

THE BLACK WATCH

The Story of the Royal Highlanders

The Black Watch, which took its name from the sombre black, bhie and green
of its tartan, was originally drawn from the six independent companies of High-
landers raised for service only in the Highlands, to keep order among the lawless
bands of outlaws and cattle raiders who infested the border courtrj-. The 1st
Battalion, which is the oldest corjJs of Highlanders in the British Army, was
in existence in 1725, and in the course of the next century and a half had changed
its name from the Black Watch to the Highland Regiment ; then to the 42nd
Highland Regiment ; to the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment of Foot, and (1861-81)
to the 42nd Royal Highland (the Black Watch) Regiment of Foot. In 1758 a
2nd Battalion was raised and known as the 2nd Battalion 42nd Royal Highlanders,
to become a separate regiment in 1786 as the 78rd Regiment of Foot, and in 1862
the 78pd (Perthshire) Regiment. Their present title of the Black Watch (Royal
Highlanders) was given *o both battalions in 1881.

To enumerate the services of the Black Watch, as Mr. John S. Farmer says,
in The Regimental Records of the British Army, ' is simply to narrate the military
history of Great Britain ' since the middle of'the eighteenth cent'iry. ' Hardly a
campaign has been conducted or a battle fought in which the Bbck Watch — one
battalion or the other, or both in company — has not participated ; always with
bravery, and frequently with conspicuous gallantry.' The chief of their cam-
paigns and battles are given in the following list, which could easily be doubled
in length :

Flanders, 1748-7.
Fontenoy, 1745.
Canada, 1757-60.
Ticondcroga, 1738.
Guadoloupe, 1759,
Martininue, 1762.
Havaiin ti, 1702.
Jndian Frontier, 1762^7.
Bushy Run, 1768.
America, 1775-81.
Long Island, 1776.
Brooklyn, 1776.
Fort Washington, 1776.

Urandywine, 1777.
Gfrmaiitowii, 1777.
Charlcstown, 1780.
India, 17S2-93.
Mysore, 1782.
Pondieherry. 1 798.
Flanders, 1798-5.
Ni<^uport, 1793.
Nimcguen, 1794.
India, West Indies, Italy,

Spain, 1795-9.
Ct-yion, 1795.
Guildermolscn, 1795.

St. Lucia, 1796.
St. Vincent, 1797.
Minorca, 1798.
Suringapatani, 1799.
Genoa, 1799.
Catliz, 1799.
Malta, IKOO.
Egypt, 1801.
Alexandria, 1801.
Aboukir, 1801.
Peninsula, 1808-li.
Vimiera, 1808.
Corunna, 1809.

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Busaoo, 1810.
Furntcs (I'Oiion), 1811.
Cjudacl RiHlri}^), 1H12.
Suluiiianca, 181:^.
Pyrpnct.s, 1813.
Nivillc, 1818.
Antwerp. 1814.
Urthrs, 1814.
Tuukmso, 18U.
Qiiatrc Ilras, 1819.
Wuturloo, 1813.

South Africii. 1846 33.
Crimi-a, 1834-6.
Alma. 1854.
Uulavliiva, 1894.
Seva.st(»|M)l, 1855.
Indian Mutiny. 1857-8.
Ban-Uly, 1857.
Cawnporr, I8i7.
Lucktiow. 1838.
Ashantt'o, 187V.
CiKtmasMC, 1874.

Egypt, 1882-1.
Til-cl-Ktbir. 1882.
Nilo, 1884-5.
El-Tub, 1884.
Tomai. 1884.
Kirbi'kan, 1883.
South Atrica, 1809-1902.
Maijcrsfniitiiii. 1899.

K(«»dcN>hl>tT>,'. IIMM).
PaardetxTjf, 190*).
Tliabanchu, 1900.

THE SCOTS IN BELGIUM

By James Mitchell

In AiiluiT]) luucli was said "f tlio Highlanders. A gentleman had, when tlie
wounded arrived, l)een recn'.nised and spoken to t)y a |ioor lliglilander. Tlie
circumstance al>soIutely gave him a kind of consiuerution in the crowd ; lie felt
proutter at the moment than if a pi .ce had smiled upon him. At Brussels, and
everywhere in the Netherlands, when the English troops were mcntioneil, whom
thc> likewise much admired, the natives always returned to the Scotch with- -
' But the Seoteh, they are good and kind, as well as brave ; they are Uie only
soldiers who become members of the family in the houses in which they arc billeted';
they even carry about the children and do the domestic work.' Tlie favourite
proverbial form of compliment was, ' Lions in the field and lambs in the house.'
There was a competition among the inhabitants who should have them in their
houses ; and when they returned ivoinded, the same house they had left had its
doors open, and the family went out iome miles to meet ' our own Scotsman.'
The people h.ld many instances to relate of the generosity of these men ; after
the battle many, although themselves wounded, were seen binding up the wounds
of the French and assisting them with their arm. On the contrary it is well
known that very few of our soldiers fell into the hands of the enemy without being
murdered in cold blood. There cannot be a better test of two nations, a more
satisfactory decision of the question on which the peace and happiness of man-
kind should depend,

Kram The S:oltmiin « l^l/rtrij.

THE GORDONS AT QUATRE BRAS
By Captain W. Sibome

The leading portion of Fire's light cavalry, from which the laneers that
attacked the 4'2nd and 44th British regiments had been detached, continued
its advance along the high road towards Quatre Bras, driving in the Brunswick
Hussars, who were now galloping confusedly upon the fl2nd Highlanders, then
lining the ditch of the Namiir high road contiguous to Quatre Bras. . . . The
grenadier company was wheeled back upon the road so as to oppose a front at
that |ioint to the flank of the pursuing cavalry, upon whieli the Ilighl.inders

100 SCOTLAND FOR EVER

now |OTur«l a most destructive volley. The shock thus m tasioncd to the French
cavalry was immediately pcreeptiblc. . . . Manv of them rushed through the large
opening into the farmyard of Quatre Uras, wiiich was situated immcdi tely in
rear of the right of the 9and. A few daring fellows, finding tlicy had proect i.'H toe
far to be ahle to retire In the same direction in which they had adviuiccd. wheeled
round suddenly at the point where the high roads inte- -it each other, and galloped
right through the grenadier company of the Highlani.ers, shouting and brandish-
ing their swords, and receiving a lire from some of the rear rank of the regiment
as they dashed along the road. None of them escaped : one, an ollieer of the
ChasteufS d ckeial, hud already reiiehed the spot where the Duke of Wellington
was at that moment stationed in rear of the Highlanders. Some of the men im-
mediately turned round and lired : liis horse was killed, and at the some moment
a musket-ball passed through each foot of the gallant young offlecr. Those of the
French chasseurs who luid entered the formyard, finding no other outlet, now
began to gallop back, in small parties of two or three iil a time, but few escaped
the deadly fire of the Highlanders.

Again a column of French infantry advanced from out of the wood towards the
Brussels road, wul entering the latter by the isolated house southward of Quatre
Bras, estabhshed lUelt in and about that building and its enclosures. Shortly
alterwards another column advanced in support of the former one, which then
emerged from its cover, and began to ascend that port of the Anglo-allied position
occupied by the 92nd HigUanders. On perceiving this, Mojor-General Barnes,
adjuUnt-generol to the British forces, who had just ridden up to the right of the
regiment, placed lumself very conspicuously at the head of the Highlanders, waving
his hat and exclamiing, ■ Ninety -second, follow me I ' In an instant the latter sprang
out ol the cUtch lu wliicli they had hitherto been posted, and with great gallantry
and steadiness charged down the slope. The French infantry hastily fell back,
until having gamed the partiol shelter afforded them by the isolated house and its
enclosures, they opened a most destructive ftrc upon the Highlanders, who riever-
t icless slackened not their pace, but drove the French out of their cover. Upon
clearing this point, they encountered another severe fire from the second column
that had moved forward in support. Their commanding olliecr. Colonel Cameron,
here received his death-wound, and liaving lost the power of managing his horse,
the latter carried him at its utmost speed along the road until he readied Quntre
Bras, where his servant was standing with his led horse, wlien the animal suddenly
stopping, pitched the unfortunate officer on his head. The supporting column
also gave way before the continued, bold, undaunted, though broken advance
of the 92nd Highlande's, who pursued their eiuniies, skirting the elbow of the
wood into which they retired ujion perceiving a disposition on the part of the
French cavalry to charge, and fin<ling themselves exposed to a heavy cannonade
wlueh was ra|)idly thinning their r.inks to o fearful extent.

THE DK.'VTH OF COLONEL JOHN C.\MERON
By Rev. Archibald Clerk

COLONKI. Camkuon maiched f„rward tu Q.i.ntre Bras, animated and animating his
men l)j the martial strains he loved so well.

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■ IVll wild ami hijih the U,„cro„ . Kalhtrin,- ro..
Ihc «,,.„„(e „f f^iohl.l, which Albvi,,. hilJi
Hnvc hc.rd, and hr«nl. l,.o, h.vr lii-r Saxon fo,»
H"w in the iiiHin of nij-ht that i.il,r.>ch liirill., '
S«v.ge «„,! ,hrill ! Bnt .ilh the l.re.11, whirh Kll<
I hnr mountain pipe, ,o fill ih,- ,no,nit.,„eer,
"ctn the fierce native clarioK »hi.'h instils
I he «tirrin([ nieinnrv ..f a thoiisaral years
And Ev.„,, Donald', f,„e, rinx, i„ eael, clansman . ears.'

n-iiHed ' hT„. ." alvance, asked permission to charge them. The Duke

from .yfenwtr .,/ CoUtwl John lanifrnn (1058).

THE BLACK WATCil AT QUATRE BRAS
By Captain W. Sibome

luE Brunswick Hussars were ordered forward to cover tlie retreat of the
«hieh their right flank became exposed, failed in producing the slightest check

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U|»jri tlu- cavulry. uiid vi.re soon seen wliccling nbuut uiii in full fliulit, clowly
pursued by their opponcnU. ... » /

The 42n<i Iliithlnndcrs huving, from tlieir position, been the first to rceognise
them [the lancersl m a part of the enemy's forces, rapidly fo .d scpiari- ; but
just OS the two flank companies were miming in to form the rear face, the lancers
had leached the ri(jimerit. when a ccin.idi ruble portion ->f their leading division
penetrated the s(pmre, carrying along with them, by the impctiis of their ehirge,
several men of those two I'ompnnies, and creating a momentary confusion. The
long-tried disciplmc and steadiness of the llighlandcn, however, did not forsake
them at this most critical juncture ; the j lancers, instead of effecting the destruc-
tion of the sipiare, were themselves fairly hemmed into it, and either bayoneted or
taken pnsoncrs, whilst the endangered face, restored »» if bv magic, successfully
repelled all further attempts on the p^n I of llie I'leiicli l,i coinpletc their expected
triumph.

From lliilory qf thr Wiir in Fr>inte niid Hrlj/iun.

O WHERE, TELL ME WHERE
By Mrs. Grant of Laggan

■ I) 'VllliHE. lill iiic where 1^ yiiur Iliuhland liidilic Rone 1 '

' He s gone, with strenmine banners, where noble dceils arc done ;
A ' -ny sad heart will Irciniilc till he eomee safely home'

■ C ..hat, tell me what docs your Highlaral Liddic wear r '
' A bonnet with a lofty plume, the gallant badge of war,

And a plnid across the .nanly brer.st that yet shall wear a star.'

' Sup|X)SO, ah I suppose Ihiit siiine cruel, eniel wound
Should pierce your Highland laddie and all your Iwpcs confound ! '
' The pipes would play a cheering march, the banners round him flv.
The spirit of a Highland chief would lighten in his eye.

' But I will hope to see him yet in Scotland's bonnic bounds,

His native land of liberty shall nurse his glorious wounds.

While wide through all our Highland hills his warlike name resounds.

THE SCOTS AT WATERLOO

Blucher, in a dispatch relating to the ba.tle of Waterloo, wrote, ' That the Old
Guard were baffled by the intre|iLdity of the Scottish regiments.' It was flattering
to hear this account of the conduct of the Highlanders confirmed by the prevailing
belief both in Poris and throughout France ; the French soldiers themselves saying
that it was the Scottish troopers who chiefly occasi(med the loss of the battle by
defeating the Old Guard. The impression they made in Paris itself fully justifies
the belief on that subject. Tartan became a prevailing fashion with the ladies,
and the full garb was employed as an attraction by wax-work exhibitors. It was
likewise introduced on the stage with great applause.

From Thf Hii/ik >;/ .Si-oll Uti M,tnl<,lr.

QUATRK BRAS AND WATERLOO

lUH

VIII

SAVING THE COLOURS

TiiF.UE arc f.-w anccLitrs which hove hoon Iransmidr.l with s„ miuh r..rc ni those
whid, r..|.T to the prescpvalicm of the eolours. Muther thun surnnder then, tu
an oliciiiy a true soldier will resort to any extremity

In a S,„tti»h rej,in.ent at the Imtlle of \Vuterl,K, the stanclard-heur. r was
killed, ami ela.ped the colours so fast in death that a sergeant, after tryiii« to no
purpose to rescue them„n the near approach „f the enemy made a violent effort,
and IhrowmK the dead l,o,ly, colour, and all, over hi, shoulder, earricl tlun, off
toge her. The fremli seeing tin, were elmmied with llic. heroism of |l,e action
and iMiilcl It with applause and re|icaleil sli,,iits of admiiuliun.

IriHii 7/» Htlli.l, S„l,lir

THE CAMERONS AT WATERLOO
By W. Richards

At Wiitcrloo the 7i)th took p;.rt in the nieiiiorahle charge which may he said to
h..vc inllicted the first distinct reverse upon the French. The Belgian and Dutch
Br gide had wavered, then 'turned and fled in disgraceful and disorderly panic
hut there we« men more worthy of the name ' uid. In this part of the ^ej mi
hue of the allies were posted Pack's ami Ken , Brigades of Kligli h infantr
which had suttered severely at Quatrc Bras. But Picton was htre as ge eral
of division, and not even Ney himself could surpass in resolute bravery that tern
and fiery spirit. Pieton hrought his two brigades forward, si.le by side, in a thi

With these Pieton had to make hea.l against the three victorious French colunms
upwards of four times that strength, an.l who, encouraged by the e" y „,u ,?the
Dutch and Be gwns, now eame confidently over the ridge of the hill. The British
infantry stood firm and as the French halted and began to deploy into ,e
Picton seized the cntieal moment. He shouted in his stentorian viiee^rKe, s

Ph fv ?l *■' "?'' "'"" ^^'«^ ' ^' " ''i^'^""^' "f !"« than thirtv yard,

that volley was pouretl upon the devoted first sections of the nearest eoluiun, and

tofdefd " h™' l'"xt- 'he Britis^h dashed in with the bayonet. Pieton w^
shot dead as he rushed forward, but his men pushed on with the cold steel ' The
^hilT/ 1 ■ ^M™ disorganised and confused ; the next moment, and
they were flymg m wild confusion down the slope, pursuerl by the 70th and their
comrades of Kemp's Brigade. Throughout the .lay the Tilth was h<,tly engaged
and on few regiments did loss fall heavier. Before the battle they had their

ul eomplement of omcers and men-776 of all ranks; when it ^as won
fell to a lieutenant to bring the regimcnt-or what remained of it-out of action
when It was found that no fewer than 479, of whom .T> were olTiccrs, had fallen.'

in Ilfr Majfttij't,
u of Mpsurii, Vifti

: A Uu., Uuilou.

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SCOTLAND FOR EVER

THE ROYAL SCOTS, GORDONS, AND BLACK WATCH
AT WATERLOO

/iy Captain IV. Sihorne

Thk IhriT hi-t.lcli rt'Kitiiciits, the \si KoyiiLs, the i2iid anil U'iiul Ilij;hliiiulers
imder the iininuitinn bound!! of their imtjve pibroch, niovcil slimlily on witl» tht
noble tujcn and pillunt l)ciirinK uf men bent npon upholding, at any hucnftce, the
hmiunr and Kl*»ry ol" their ctmntry. . . . Tlmt [hirtion ol" the French cohimn
whieh liiid by this lime crossed the hedj^c was in ixrlVct onler, und presentcti a
Ixild and dctennined IVont. It wii:* opposed to the 42nd und 92nd intthlariders,
but principally to the latter rei^nncnt. As the bri;r,idu nppnmehed the column,
it receivetl from it a tire whieh, however, it did not return, but continued to
advance steadily until it had arrived within twenty or thirty yards distance,
when the OXntl and 42nd Highlanders . . . threw into the mass a concentrated
fire, most destructive in its effects. The French were stiiKKcred by the shock,
but speedily rccovcrinjt themselves, bejfan to reply with great spirit to the ftre
of their op[K>nents, when the latter rcfcived the order to charge ; but at this very
moment Ponsonby's brigade came up. . . .

As the Scots lircys passe*! through und nungled with the Highlanders, the
enthusiasm of both coq)s was extranrdinarj-. They mutually cheered. ' Scotland
for ever I ' was their war shout. The smoke in which the head of the French
column was enshrouded had not cleared away when the Greys dashed into the
mass. So eager was the desire, S4) strong the determination of the Highlanders
to aid their ei>mpivtriuts in completing the work m gloriously begun, that many
were seen holding on by the stirrups of the horsemen, while all rushed forward,
leaving none but the disabled in tht ir rear. The lending [wrtion of the column
„.ion yieliled to this infuriated onset ; the remainder, which was yet in the act
of ascending the exterior slope, appalled by the sudden appearance of cavalry
at a moment when, judging by the sound of musketry (ire in front, they had
M;iturully concludetl that it was with infantry alone they hod to contend, were
hurled biick in confusion by the impetus of the shock. The dragoons, having
the advantage of the descent, appeared to mow down the mass, which, hendinf
under the pressure, quickly spread itself outwards in all directions. Yet in thai
nmss were many gallant spirits who could not be brought to yield without >
struggle, and these fought bravely to the death. . . . Within that mass, too,
was borne the imperial eagle of the 45th regiment, proudly displaying on its
banner the names of Jena, Austeriitz. Wagrani, Eylau, and Friedland — fields in
which this regiment had covered itself with glory and acquired the distinguished
title of 'The Invincibles.' A devoted band encircled the sacred standard, whieh
attracted the observation and excited the ambition of a daring and adventurous
soldier name<l Ewart, u sergeant of the Greys. After a. desperate struggle,
evincing on his part great physical strength combined with extraordinary dexterity,
he succeeded in cai)turing the cherished trophy. . . .

Without pausing for a moment to re-form, those of the Greys who had forced
their way through or on either flank of the mass, rushed boldly onward against
the leading supporting column of Marconet's right brigade. ... To such a
degree had the impetus of the charge been augmented by the rapidly increasing
descent of the slope, that these brave dragoons possessed as little of the power
as of the will to cheek their spcal, and they plungcvi down into the mass with a

QI'VlRt BRAS AND WATHUl.OO ill

Uirvv that v/hh tniU iitc^kIiIiU-. Its litiiii" -.1 rMiik-< dnvm l>'<\ v\tili 'trtpn
nihil' vu-lt'iii-c, Ihi- t-nlirt' ctlmnii r<itliTi-<l T'T u tmitiKMil. iwul I hen tjink tiinltr !lii'
ovcT[vtwrriMu' W11VI-. lluiHind'. were fTHsh'd tn ri e im iiiorc', iiiitl liiiiiilntK
rif.*' a^riiiii liiit li) -III II ruler li. thi- vut.irs. \\U-> ^[.ciiliK >Hi-i.l then [.n-nu.r.

tn the U-.'.r. Wl.llc 111-' Hl(,'lll ■lid.-lS MCurnl tllo^r- hil,. ., IrnMI 11m I< ,ulit... r-i In .,, .

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1 1, •/•J,;

A PAY SKRCJEANT OF 'rill". SCOTS CRI-VS
By J. li. Stocqueler

N'l^li the Miiililit; |>liuhs ol Waterloo ^^ll•'n \iii| unl, t|ir iii(|rt'iitj(fnhti- uuith' U
:it \our sidr I'Hjjcr to show the iimrk". u| the riiiinoii Itall-. oii tin uiilis ami Irf-ts
nC li"ii{;om'>iit. llif spots where I'onsonhy ii'mI i'lctiPii Icll. Anu'lfsfy .'itnl h'li/.ntv
S<iir>>isct l.ist liinlis. and tionlnii \mis iimrt.-,IK stnn k, Tliosr win. wish hiilli-
fullv lit clironiclr (lif (li-cds (if titlirr Uiinw cuium.I puss o\ rr willmut uiu- u.ird. al
Iriist. nf :i<lniiiati..n tilt' hrr>>isiit of the foot Gimnls. the diishiiit; .iml indoinitrilih
i-hiirnes 111 ihi- l.ilc (iimnls. the Scuts lire\s. ami Iviiiiskilh ns, ttie nrmnis-* of tlie
Sent<-h 1-e^'iiiKnts ami llalkett's HnuiuJ' . tli' :i()th ai:<{ 73rd, the tiiirini! hrc of
('olliortie's .'r_*rid. the iidiiiiralih preei-iion and steHdines^ of the artillerv. and th<-
im|jen('trulile atlitmle of thi- line v» Inch, fonmtl in sijuarri. rciimincd iinfliiieh-
iii^dy for hoiirn tAposol to a deadly >ho\ver of inis-des aiul ptrpetiml uttaekt of
cavnlry, only to deploy at lu-t and. in the whirlMiiid of its fnrioiis ehurnc, setittcr
'iefeat and dismay thrun^hol<t the itrniy ot its terrihle opponent :-- the narm s of
Shaw the lale (iiiardsinan, a'' Kiiurt tiie s( ryeant of the (Jrey-. of \\'» ir oi' the
same nohle reu'inn nt

Sirijeant Weir was ^iv ser^'cii.-t of his tn^)]), and as siicli niipht have excused
himself from serving in neti.in ; Imt i,n such a day iis the hatth' of Waterloo he
disilaiBcd to avail himself of the i)rivihtfe, and requested to he allowed to join
his rcfjmiciit in the mortal tVay, In oiir of the charj(es he fell mortalh' wounded,
ami was left on the Held. Corporal Seott of the same refjimtnt. who lost a lee.
asserts that when the fieKl was searched for the wounded and shiin tlw hody ••f
Scr^'cant Weir was found with the name written on his forehead with his own
hand dipjied in his own hlood. This, M eonirude said, he was supposed to havi-
done, thai his hody niiuht he found ami reeofjnised, and that it might not he
imagined lie disappeared with the money of his trcmp.

From ffii

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SERCiEANT EWART OF THE SCOTS GREYS
By IK. Richards

Tilt: Greys at Waterloo form one of the meniorahle pictures of warlike history.
Still there seems to ring in our tars the cry of ' Scotland ft>r ever ! ' with whieli
they charged upon the legions of France. Familiar as household words are the
traditional sayings of the rival generals — the admiring exclamation of Napoleon,
' Those licautiful grey horses ! ' and the muttered wish of Wellington, ' Wovihl
that theie were more of the Greys I ' Still we seem tu see the ttrrihle whirlwind
of the Union Brigade, a storm-cloud of liercc men and mighty horses and gleaming

112 SCOTLAND FOR EVER

steel, which 'ruslicd upon every description of force which presented itself:
lancers and cuirassiers were alike overthrown and cut ilown— several lotteries
were carried, and the regiment (the Greys) penetnited to the rear of the enemy's
position. Sergeant Ewart of the Greys captured on eagle of the French 45th
regiment. ' I had a hard contest for it/ he writes. ' The hearer thrust for
my groin J I parried it oft and cut him through the head. After which I was
attacked by one of their lancers, who threw his lance at me, but missed tlii' mark
by my throwing it off with my sword. Then I cut him from the chin upwards,
which went through his teeth. Next I w.is attacked by a foot soldier, who after
bring at me charged me with his bayonet ; but he very soon lost the combat for
I parried It and cut him down through the head, so that finished the contest for
the eagle. Ewart received a commission as a recognition of his valour.

.■•Vitrii Her SlnJe..lf,'K Army.
By iwrmiisiiiii „r AIcNNrH. Virtue tt CV, I.uuiluii.

XIII

' OUR AIN FOLK '
By James Grant

Under cover of a formidable cannonade, which Napoleon's artillery opened
from the crest of the ridge where his line was formed, three dense masses of
infantry, consisting each of four battalions, moving in solid squares, poured
impetuously down on the left and centre of the allied line. They rent the air
with cries of ' Vive la France ! Vive fEmpereur I ' and on they came double-
quick, with their sloped arms glittering in the sun. Thev were enthusiastically
encouraged by their officers, whose voices were heard above even the mingled
dm of the battle-cry, cheering thern on as they waved their eagles and brandished
their sabres aloft. One of these columns poured its strength on La Ilayc Sainte
where it experienced a warm mid deadly welcome ; while the other two attacked
that part of the position which was occupied by Sir Denis Pack's Brigade.

As they advanced, Campbell m.ade the signal with his sword, and the eight
pipes of the regiment commenced the wild pibroch of Donald-dhu— the march
of the Islesmen to Lochaber in 1431. It was echoed back by the pipes of the
Royals and the 42nd on the right, and the well-known effect of that instrument
was instantly visible in the flushing cheeks of the brigade. Its music never falls
in vain on the ear of a Scotsman, for he alone can understand its wild melody
and stirnng associations. The ranks which before had exhibited all that still-
ness and gravity which trixips always observe— in fact, which their feelings
compel them to observe— before being engaged, for fighting is a serious matter
became animated, and the soldiers began to cheer and handle their muskets long
before the order was given to fire. A brigade of Belgians, formed in line before
a hedge, was attacked furiously by the French columns, who were eager for
vengeance on these troops, whom they considered as deserters from the cause
of the ' great Emperor,' whose uniform they still wore. The impetuosity of the
attack compelled the Belgians to retire in rear of the hedge, over which they
received and returned a spirited fire.

Pack's Brigade now opened upon the foe, and the roar of cannon and musketry
increased on every side as the battle became general along the extended parallel
lines of the British and French. The fire of the latter on Pack's Brigade was
hot and rapid, for in numerical force they outnumbered them, many to one and
made dreadful havoc. The men were falling— to use the common phrase— in
heaps, and the danger, smoke, uproar, and slaughter, with all the terrible eon-

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comitents of a groat battle, iiicreascl on every side ; the blood of the combatants
grew hotter, and the national feelings of hatred and hostility, wluch previously
had lam dormant were now fully awakened, and increased apace with the slaughter
around them. Many of the Highlanders seemed animated by a perfect furv-
a terrible eagerness to grapple with their antagonists. Captain Grant, an oflieer
ol the (.ordon Highlanders, became so much excited that he quitted the ranks
and rushing to the front, brandished his long sword aloft, and defied the enemv
to charge or approach further. Then, calling upon the regiment to follow him, he
threw U|> Ins bonnet, and flinging himself hemllong on the bayonets of the enemv
was instantly slain. Poor fellow ! he left a young wife nt home to lament him, and
his loss was much regretted by the regiment.

■ This is hot work, Chisholm,' said Ronald, with a grim smile, to his smart young
sub., who came towards him jerking his head about in that nervous manner which
the eternal whistling of musket-shot will cause many a brave fellow to assume.

Hot work-devihsh r answered the other, with a blunt carelessness, which,
perhaps, was half affceUd. But I have something good to communicate.'

vV hat ?

• Bliiehcr with forty thousand Prussians is advancing from Wavrc. Bony
know-s nothing of this, and the first news he hears of it will be the twelve-
pounders of the Prussians administering a dose of cold iron to his left flank upon
the extremity of the ndgc yonder.'

' Good ; but is the intelligence true ? '

' Ay, true as the Gospel. I heard an aide-de-camp, a rather excited but
exquisite young fellow of the 7th Hussars, tell old Sir Denis so this moment.'

Would to God we saw them l-the Prussians, I mean. We are suffering
dre.idfully from the fire of these columns.' ^

• Ay, faith I ' replied the other, coolly adjusting his bonnet, which a ball had
knocked awry, and turning towards the left flank of the company, before he had
gone three paces he was stretched proiitrate on the turf.

He never stirred again. A ball had pierced his heart ; and the bonnet which
a moment before he had arranged so jauntily over his fair hair, rolled to the feet
ot Ronald Stuart.

I I kent he w.is/q// Puir young gentleman I ' said a soldier.
I wdl add a stone to his cairn,' observed another figuratively ; ■ and give this
to revenge him,' he added, dropping upon his knee and firing among the smoke
ot the opposite line. c e

Stuart would have examined the body of his friend, to find if any spark of hte
yet lingered in it, but his attention was attracted by other matters.

The Belgians at the hedge gave way, after receiving and retuminK a de-
stnietive Are for nearly an hour. The 3rd battalion of the Scots Royals and a
battalion of the 44th (the same regiment which lately distinguished itself at
Cabul) took up the ground of the vanquished men of Gallia Belgka, and after
maintaining the same conflict against an overwhelming majority of numbers
"'■lu^^'n'"?^ staunch to their post till the unlucky hedge was piled breast-high
mth killed and wounded, they were compelled to retire, leaving it in possession
of the enemy, who seized upon it with a fierce shout of triumph, as if it had been
the fallen capital of a fallen country, instead of the rural boundary of a field of rye

It was now three o'clock in the afternoon. The strife had lasted incessantly
for four hours, and no word was yet heard of the Prussians. For miles around
the plains were involved in smoke ; and whether they were approaching or not
no man knew, for a thick war-cloud enshrouded the vale of Waterloo Three
thousand of the allies had been put to the rout, and the dense mob-like columns

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of tilt; enoi; . came rolling on from the ridge opposite to Lord Wellington's position,
apparently witli the determination of bi-aring all bef(}ri' them.

When they gained possession ol' the hedge before mentioned. Sir Denis Pack,
who had been with its defenders till the moment they gave way, galloped at full
speed up to the Gordon Highlanders— a corps reduced now to a mere skeleton,
and barely nnistering two hundred eflieient bayonets.

' Highiimdcrs ! ' cried the general, who was evidently labouring under no
ordinary degree of excitement aiui anxiety, ' you must charge ! Upon them with
the bayonet, or the heights arc lost, for all the troops in your front have given way ! '

' Highlanders ! shoulder to shoulder 1 ' cried Campbell, as the regiment began
to advance with their muskets at the long trail, and in silence, with clenched tieth
and bent brows, for their hearts were burning to avenge the fall of their comrades.
' Shoulder to shoulder, l.'ids ! close together like a wall 1 ' continued the major,
as, spurriTig his horse to the front, he waved his sword and bonnet aloft, und the
corps moved down the hill. ' Remember Egypt and Corunna -and remember
Cameron, though he 's gone, for his eye may be upon us yet at tiiis very moment !
Forward — double-quick ! '

The column they were about to charge presented a front more tlian equal
to their own on /our faces, and formed a dcnsf mass of three thousand infantry.
Heedless of their numbers, with that free and fearless impetuosity which they
have ever displayed, and which has always been attended with the most signal
success, the bonneted clansmen rushed on with the fury of a torrent from their
native hills, equally regardless of the charged bayonets of the French front ranks, the
murderous fire of the rear, and of ten pieces of cannon sent by Napoleon to assist
in gaining the height occupied by Pack's shattered brigade. It was a desperate
crisis, and the regiment knew that they must be victorious or be annihilated.

A body of cuirassiers were coming on to the assistance of the vast mass of
infantry — all splendid troo|)s glittering in a panoply of brass and steel ; and the
slanting rays of the sun gleamed beautifully on their long lines of polish^^d helms
and corselets, and the forest of swords which they brandished aloft above the
curls of the eddying smoke, as they came sweeping over the level plain at full
gallop. The advance of the little band of Highlanders made them seem like a few
mice attacking a lion — the very acme of madness or of courage. Their comrades
were all defeated, themselves were threatened by cavalry, galled by ten pieces
of cannon, and opposed to three thousand infantry ; and yet they went on with
the heedless impetuosity of the heroes of Killieerankie, Falkirk, and Gladsmuir.

The front rank of the enemy's cohmm remained with their long muskets and
bayonets at the charge, while the rear Kept up a hot and destructive fire, in unison
with the sweeping discharges from the field-pieces jilaccd at a little distance on
their flanks.

The moment was indeed a critical one to those two hundred eagle hearts.
They were in the projxirtiuu of one man to fifteen ; and notwithstanding this
overwhelming majority, when the steady line of Highlanders came rushing on,
with their bayonets levelled before them, and had reached within a few yards of
the enemy, the latter turned and fled ! The huge mass which might with ease
have eaten them, broke away in a confusion almost laughable, the front ranks
overthrowing tlie rear, and every man tossing away musket, knapsack, and
accoutrements. The Highlanders still continued pressing forward with the
charged bayonet, yet totally unable to comprehend what had stricken the foe
with so disgruetfid a panic.

' Hilt ! ' cri-^d Campbell. ' Fire on the cowards. D~n them, give them a
volley ! ' and a -liisty fire was poured upon the confused mob.

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A cry arose ol " Uere come the cavalry I '

' Hoigh I hurrah 1 ' cried the Highlanders. ' Tlie Greys— the Greys— the
Scots Greys 1 Hoigh ! our ain folk — hurrah ! ' and a trt-nicntluns cheer burst from
the Utile band us they beheld, emerging from the wreaths of smoke, the squadmns
of their €X>untrynien. who came thundering over the corse -strewed licld, where
drums, colours, arms, cannon, and cannon-shot, killfil and wounded men, covered
every foot of ground.

The grey horses — 'Those beautiful grey horses,' as the anxious Napoleon
called them, while watching this movement through his glasses— cnnie on, snorting
and prancing, with dilate<i nostrils and eyes of fire, exhibiting all the pride of our
superb dragoon chargers; while the long broadswords ami tall bearskin caps
of the riders were seen towering above the battle-clouds which rolled along the
surface of the plain.

They fonned part of the heavy brigade of the gallant Sir William Ponsonh\',
who, sabre in hand, led them on, with the 1st Royal English Dragoons, and the
6th, who came roaring tremendously, and shouting stnuige things in the deep
brogue of merry ' ould Ireland.'

From the weight of the men, the mettle of their horses, and their fine equip-
ment, a charge of British cavalry is a splendid sight : I say British, for our men
are the finest-looking as well as the best troops in the world — an assertion which
few can dispute wheri a'c speak of Waterloo. Those who witnessed the charge of
Ponsonby's Brigade will never forget it. The Higlilanders halted, and the
Dragoons sw«pt past on their fiank toward the confused masses of the enemy.
The Greys, on passing the little band of their countrymen, sent up the well-known
cry of ' Scotland for ever ! '

' Scotland for ever I ' at sucli a moment, this was indeed a cry thjit roused the
stirring nicmory of a thousand years. It touched a chord in every Scottish heart.
It seemed like a voice from their home — from the tongues of those they had left
behind ; and served to stimulate them to fresh exertions in honour of the land of
the rock and the eagle.

' Cheer, my blue bonnets ! ' cried Campbell, leaping in his sadd:^- in perfect
ecstasy. ' Oh, the gallant fellows I how bravely they ride I God and victory be
with them this day ! '

' Scotland for ever I ' echoed the Highlanders, as they waved their black
plumage on the gale. The Royals, the 42nd, the Cameron Highlanders, and every
Scots regiment within hearing took up the battle-cry and tossed it to the wind,
and even the feeble voices of the wounded were added to the general shout, while
the chivalrous Greys plunged into the column of the enemy, sabring them in
scores, and riding them down like a field of corn. The cries of the panic-strieken
French were appalling; they were the last despairing shrieks of drowning men
rather than the clamour of men-at-arms upon a battlefield. Colours, drums,
arms, and everything were abandoned in their eagerness to escape, and even while
retreating double-quick, some failed not to shout * Vive VEmpcreur ! Vive la
GloireT as vociferously as if they had been the victors instead of the vanquished.

An unlucky random shot struck Lisle's left arm and fractured the bone just
above the elbow. He uttered a sudden cry of anguish and reeled backward
several paces, but propped himself upon his sword. Ronald Stuart rushe<l towards
him, but almost at the same moment a half-spent cannon-shot (one of the last
fired by the train sent to dislodge the Ninth Brigade) struck him on the left sil.,
doubled him up like a cloak, and dashed him to the earth, where he lay totally
deprived of sense and motion. When struck, a consciousness flashed upon his
mind that his ribs were broken to jiieces, and that he was dying ; then the dark-

116 SCOTLAND FOR EVER

ness of night seemed to descend on his eyes, and he felt us if his soul was passing
away from his body. That feehng, which seemed the reverse of a terrible one,
existed for a space of time scarcely divisible. There was a rushing sound in his
ears, flashes of red fire seemed to go out from his eyes, and then every sensation
of life left him for a time. The regiment thought nim dead, as few survive the
knock from a cannon-shot, and no one considered it worth while to go towards
him save Louis Lisle. All were too intently watching the flashing weapons of
the cavalry as they charged again and again, each squadron wheeling to the right
and left to allow the others to come up, and the work of slaying and capturing
proceeded in glorious style. Poor Ronald's loss was never thought • ' by his
comrades.

* Stuart 's knocked on the head, poor fellow ! * was his only elegy. One life
is valued less than a straw when thousands are breathing their last in the awful
arena of the battlefieM.

Ix>uis, whose lef.. ^.in hung bleeding and moticnless by his side, turned Uonnld
on his back with his right, and saw that he was pale and breathless. He placed
his hand on the heart, but it was still. He felt no vibration.

* Great heaven I what a blow this will be for my poor sister I Farewell,
Ronald I I look upon your face for the last time 1 ' he groaned deeply with mental
and bodily agony as he bent his steps to the rear— a long and perilous way, for
shot of every size and sort were falling like hail around, whizzing and whistling
through the air, or tearing the turf to pieces when they alighted. Hundreds of
riderless horse, many of them greys, snorting and crying with pain and terror,
were gallopmg madly about in every direction, trampling upon the bodies of the
dead and wounded, and finishing with their ponderous hoofs the work that many
a bullet had begun. The slaughter among the French at that part of the fiuld
was immense ; but their cJise might have been very different had they stood firm
and shown front, as British infantry would have done.

One thousand were literally sabred, ridden down, or cut to pieces ; two
thousand taken prisoners, with two eagles, one by a sergeant of the Greys, and
all the drums and colours ; a catastrophe which scarcely occupied five minutes'
time, and which Napoleon beheld from his post near La Belle Alliance with
sensations which may easily be conceived, for these troops were the flower of his
numerous army.

This was about half-past four in the afternoon, and over the whole plain of
Waterloo the battle was yet raging with as much fury as c^ct.

From The- ttonuince of War.

XIV

HIGHLANDERS AFTER WATERLOO

By Sir Walter Scott

[A CONVERSATION bctwccn Sir Walter Scott and some Scottish soldiers, whom
he found bivouacked at Peronne, on their march to Paris, after the battle of
Waterloo.]

I told him, that as a countryman, accidentally passing, I could not resist the
desire of inquiring how he and his companions came to have such unconilortable
beds ; and I askc^ him, if it was not usual to receive billets on the inhabitants for
quarters ?

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' Na, sir,' was his couponed reply j ' we beldoin Iroulilc llicm for billets : they
ca' this bivouacking, you see.*

' It docs not seem very pleasant, whatever they may call it. How do the
people of the country treat you ? '

' Ow I gailies : particubrly we that are Scotch : we ha' but to show our
pettitcoat, as the English ca' it, an' we 're aye weel respected.'

' Were you in the battle of Waterloo f '

' Ay, 'deed was I, and in Quatre-bras beside. I got a bit skelp wi' a shell at
Waterloo.'

* And were all your companions who sleep there also wounded ? '

' Ay were they ; some mair, some less. H r' - ane o' 'em wakening, you see,
wi' our speaking.'

The Scotchmen, having but small seductioi to return to their beds, became
quite inchned to talk, particularly when they heard from what part of the land
o' cakes I came from.

' The duke,' they said, ' wasna to be blamed as a general at a' ; nor would the
men ha'e ony cause to complain if he would but gie them a little mair liberty.'

' Liberty I What sort of liberty do you mean ? '

* Ow — just liberty — freedom, you see I *

' What, do you mean leave of absence — furloughs ? *

' Na, na 1 De'il a bit : God, this ha.sna been a time for furloughs. I mean
the liberty that ither sodgcrs get i the Prussians and them.'

As I still professed ignorance of their meaning, one of them gave me, in a sudden
burst, a very pithy explanation of the sort of hberty which the duke was blamed
for withholding. The other qualified it a little, by saying—

' Ay, ay, he means that when we 'vc got the upper ban', we shu'd employ it.
There s i ^ use in being mcaly-mou'd, if the ithers are to tak what they like.
The d d Prussians ken better what they 're about.'

* Well, but you find that the Prussians are everywhere detested, and you have
just now told me that you Highlanders are everywhere respected.'

' Ou ay, wp 're praised eneueh. Ilka body praises us, but very few gie us
oiiything.'

More readily interpreting this hint than the last, I proved myself an exception
to the general rule by putting into their hands a franc or two to drink.

The one who received the money looked at it very deliberately, and then,
raising his head, said—

' Weel, sir, we certainly didna expect this ; did we, Jock ? '

I inquired if the Duke of Wellington took severe means of enforcing on his
army that regard for the lives and property of the inhabitants, in maintaining
which he evidently placed the pride of his ambition, not less than in beating his
armed adversaries ?

' Na, sir ; no' here,' was the reply ; ' for the men ken him weel cncueh now.
But in Spain we often had ugly jobs. He hung fifteen men on ac day there —
after he had been ordering aboot it, God knows how lang ; and d -n me if he
didna ance gar the provost-marshal flog mair than a dizzen of the women, for the
women thought themselves safe, and so were waur than the men. They got sax
and tliirty lashes apiece on the bare doup, and it was lang before it was forgotten on
them.^ Ane o' them was Meg Donaldson, the best woman in our regiment ; for,
whate'er she might tak, she didna keep it a' to herself.' The noise of the horses
brought to be harnessed to the diligence made me take a ha.sty leave of these
Scottish soldiers.

CHAPTER VII

The Crimean War

THE HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY
The Story oj the Regiment

What is now the IsL battalion of tlic 11.1^.1. was raised as a 'Jjid battalion of the
li'Jnd Foot, but it was separately regimented, as the 71st Ucffiment of Foot,
before the end of the same year (17S8). Later it beeame the 71st (Highland)
Ucjjiment ofFoot, otherwise Fraser's Highlanders. In 1777 it wiis the 1st battalion
7ard (Highland) Regiment of Foot ; in 1786, the 71st ; in 1808, the 71st (Glasgow
Highland) Regiment of Foot ; in 1809, the 71st (Glasgow Highland Light Lifantrv);
and in 1810 the 71st (Highland) Light Infantry.

The evolution of the 2nd battalion of the H.L.I, is almost as dillicult to follow.
It was raised in 1756 us a 2nd battalion of the 36th Foot; in the same year it
was separately rcgiTucritcd as the 7ith Regiment of Foot; and in 176.'i took the
title of the 74th Regiment of Foot, being disbanded in 1764. In 1777 it was the
74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot, popularly named the Argyll Highlanders. In
1787, after disbandment, it was re-formed as the 74th, and presently, as a result
of its famous victory at Assaye in ISO.I, was commonly spoken of as the Assaye
Regiment. The two battalions adopted the name of the Highland Light Infantry
in 1881. The H.L.I, has been to a considerable extent recruited from Glasgow.
How it obtained its nickname of ' The Pig and Whistle Light Infantry ' is not clear.
It enjoys the proud distinction of bearing on its colours a longer roll of honours
than is possessed by any other regiment in the whole of the British Army, with
the exception of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, which, however, has four regular
battalions. The principal campaigns and battles that have a place in the history
of the Highland Light Infantry include :

(Jibraltnr, 17S0-;|.
Iniliu, 17K(P-!I7.
Caniatic-, 17S0.
Am. I. 178(1.
I'.irtn-Xovo, I7«l.
,Sli,ilingnr, 17,sl.
MvMiie, I7»;i.
HiiliKal.iie, 17!ll.
Sci'iu/fapiitani, IT'.'J.
.\hmiihiugj,'ur, 1801*.
Assaye, 1803.
tape ot GcKid Hope. 1806.
Buenos Ayrcs, 1«00.
Monti- Video, 1807.
P<ninsitla. 1S08-14.
UoKia, 1808.
118

ViniicTii, isos.
Ct.runnii, 1800.
Flushing, 1800.
Kusaco. 1810.
Fucntf s d'Onoro, 1811.
.\rn>\() dus Molinos, 1811 .
Alniaraj. 1812.
Ciudad Koilrigo, LSI 2.
iladal.is, 1812.
.Salaniant-a. 181'.'.
Nivilli, IKl:).
Vittoria. 1S1;|.
Maya, 1810.
Pyrenees IKl:).
Nive. 18i;j.
Ortli.s, IKll,

Toulouse, 1814.
Quatre Bras, 1815.
Waterloo, 1815.
Netherlands, 18 Ij.
South Africa, 18jl..'i.
Crimea. 1854-0.
llalaelava. 18.51.
Sebastopol. 1S55.
India, 1838.
Indian Mutiny, 1858.
Egypt, 1882.
'I'el-cl-Kebir, 18N2.
South .Africa, 1800-1002.
Magcrsfontein, 1000.
Paardebcrg, 190O.
Thabanetiu, loou.

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TROOPS LEAVING EDINBURGH
By Gerald Massey

For Freedom's Irattli- mareh auld Scotland's brave,

And Edinburgh streets arc piled with life to-day.

High on her crags the royal City sits.

And sees the files of war far-winding out.

And with the gracious golden Morning smiles

Her proudest blessing down. Old .Arthur's Seat

Fhngs up his cap of cloud for brave success ;

But the old castle stnruleth staidly stern.

As some scarred Chief who sends his boys to battle :

While the sea flashes in the sun, our Shield,

So rich in record of heroic names.

The gay Hussars come riding through tlic town,
A light of triumph sparkling in their eyes ;
The music gocth shouting in their Jiraise,
Like a loud people round the Victor's car ;
And Highland plumes together nod as though
There went the Funeral Hearse of a Russian host :
The bickering bayonets flutter wings of fire.
And gaily sounds the march of the Cameron Men.

The War-steeds sweeping— men to battle going —
The wave of Beauty's hand— meed of her eyes —
The banners with old battle-memories stirred —
The thrilling pibroch, and the wild war-drum,
Tlie stem sword-music of our grand Hurrali,
And answering cheer for death or victory —
All make mc tingle with a triumjjh of life.
And I could weep that I am left behind.
To see the tide ebb where I may not follow.

And there the gallant fellows march afielil ;
To win proud death, or larger life, they leave
Home's rosy circle ringed with blessings rich
For the far darkness and the battle-cloud.
Where many have fallen, and many yet must fall
In spurring their great hearts up to the leap.
For such brave dashes at unconquered heights.
The shadow of solemn Sorrow falls behind,
W'tiere sobbing Sweethearts look their loving lust,
And weeping Wives holil up the little ones.
The svin sets in their faces, life grows grey.
And sighs of desolation sweep its desert. '
The winter of tJie heart aches in the eyes
Of Mothers who have given their all. tiieir iiH.

120 SCOTLAND FOR EVER

And yet mcthinks the Heroic Time returns,
Such look of triumph Ughts the meanest face
To-day : there seems no licart so earthly but
Has some liliml groping after nobler life,
With hanils that reach towards God's Gate Ucuutiful.
Our England bright' ning thro' the battle smoke.
Has touched them with her glory's lovelier light.
And though their darlings fall, and though they die
In this dcath-grapple in the night with Wrong ;
The memory of their proud deeds cannot die.
They may go down to dust in bloody shrourls,
And sleep in nameless tombs, flut for all time,
Foundlings of Fame are our beloved Lost .
For me, this day of glorious life shall be
One of the starry brides of Memory,
Whose glittering faces light the night of soul.

THE BLACK WATCH, SUTHERLANDS, AND CAMERONS

STORMING THE HEIGHTS

By A. W. Kiriglake

Before the .iction had Ixgun, and whilst his men were still in colunui, Campbell
had spoken to his brigade a few words — words simple, and, for the most part,
workmanlike, yet touched with the Are of warlike sentiment. ' Now, men, you
arc going into action. Remember tliis : whoever is wounded— I don't care
what his rank is— whoever is wounded must lie where he falls till the bandsmen
come to attend to him. No soldiers must go carrying off wolmded men. If any
soldier does such a thing, hi name shall be stuck up in his parish church. Don't
be in a hurry about firing. Your ofTiccrs will tell you when it is time to open
fire. Be steady. Keep silence. Fire low. Now, "men' — those who know the
old soldier can tell how his voice would falter the while his features were kindling
— ' Now, men. the army will watch us ; make me proud of the Highland Brigade ! '

It was before the battle that this, or the hke of this, was addressed to the
brigade ; and now ... he only gave it two words . . .' Forward, 42nd ! '

Having directed his staff not to follow him. Sir Colin Campbell went forward
alone in front of the 42nd. . . . With three battalions Sir Colin Campbell was
about to engage no less than twelve ; but the three were in line, and the t.-"lve
were massed in five columns. . . . Yet Campbell, having a steadfast faith in
Colonel Campbell and in the regiment he commanded, resolved to go straight
on, and at once, with his forward movement. . . . The Black Watch advanced
firing. . . .

Halting the 42nd in the liollow, Campbell swiftly measured the strength of
the approaching column, and he reckoned it so strong that he resolved to prepare
for it a front of no less than five companies. . . . Looking to his left rear, he saw
his centre battalion springing up to the outer crest. ... He instantly rode to
the left.

In a minute, this fiery 93rd — it was commanded by Colonel Ainslie — came
storming over the crest, and, having now at last an enemy's column before it, it
seemed to be almost mad with warlike joy. . . .

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12]

VVlun the 93rd Mud recovered the ,.err^:ctiie»i of its array, it Main moved
forward, but at the .teady paee imposed upon it by the ZV Th? i", d hi
already resumed It. forward movement; it iUII advuneed firing .

To the stalely Bluck Ualeh and the hot B3rd. will, Camnhell Icadini,
tarn on there »a, vouehsafed that slronKer heart for whieh the! brave pS
Mu.e«v.te had prayed. Over the souls of the „,.n in the <"h nn, there'^Z
pread, flr.t the goon,, then the .warn, of vain delusions, and at la t he she«
horror wh.eh nnght be the work of the An„el of Dark us, . I'n e« 1,1
should come, the three colunms would have to give »uv ^

Uut help eame. From the high ground on our left'aiother heavy column
DiQveil straight at the llank of the Uard " ™"""' • • •

to Dear giant!.. . I'nsently, in all the grace and beauty that murks a High-
land rnjnnent when It springs up the si,le of a hill, the 79th e/me lioundi,^ forwir
■ . . Wrapped in the fire thus poured upon its flank, the haiiless column coud

fun retreat, the spurs of the hill an.l ^.^^h^hi^'llf i^t,:;!;^ ^ 1 '?,:;:;;S
with the enemy » disordered masses. ...11.110114,10

THE SCOTS FUSILIERS AT ALMA
By D. C. Parry

TiiE ground was sloping, and the Royal Welsh would seem to have very naturally
gathered some speed as they «ent rearward to re-form, the eonsequenee bdng
considerable disorder m the Fusilier Guards at a very critical momenU.elped if
addition by the order given to the 23rd. i.nptu ui

' Fusiliers, retire I • was shouted, and many of the Scots Guards, who were
drilled as iusihers began to act upon the command, thinking it applkd to th™

At the moment the regiment was about thirty yards fram a battcrv firing
grape and canister point blank, and a strong Russian battalion, to quote a,^ oil ee?
Tnto r '""■ "^ " '"'"'^'' ' '^'"'"8 '^"'^ ^ '-"^"^ "" they couTd

hiiJ'i^rinTl'"'"*,.'''" '"'""^ ""'"^ "' formation and became something like a

tenant Robert Lindsay was wavin, the Queen's colours, which had the pole
smashed and twenty bullet holes through the silk "^

bv Sf, hon";''"''™' "??[' 'r^ confusion was quelled to some extent, principally
by the bold bearing of the lieutenant, who fearlessly exposed himself in all the
glo y of a bnlhant scarlet coat and a display of gold epaulette and lace to match!
^enl,r „ IT ■ ^T *"'' ^^'^"^'"''"■- «■"> l-fvate Reynolds, who were pa I
ticularly distingmshed in encouraging the men, dressing the ranks hastily and
rallying them round the colours. ... ""siiij, ana

Lieutenant Annesley, the ofneer who lost his teeth, was shouting 'Forward
Guards when he was wounded ; and a letter he wrote to his mother gives a v"vid
and soul-stirnng description of the battle, in whicii he says that the Russian fire

rablirnot't^t'kTed"""'' """"^ """'^' " ""-^"'^ '"' ""^"""^ "«= ^i- "^

SCOTLAND FOR EVER

iia
THE SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS AT BALACLAVA

upon till tlu„!.k^r^:^['L,;^«r;?H^^^^^

enemy »ho was altogether .on,e iil.OOO or ato^'tronX eouTLt het ^in^
how much was now made to depend upon U e .tca.Stnesrof the lewTnt^i 5
men who remained with him stMl on the liill.,rt 17^1,^7%, hundred

mmmm

had eorae within long musketry rS The hJ^mI^' ^'",?"^^">" squadrons
them delivered their fir^l„y uJ* i .. H'8''''»ndcrs and the men alongside

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y, *' '^■"«l»l". '„.„„„„ ,„M,.W

SCARLETT'S THREE HUNDRED AT BALACLAVA
liy A. W. Kingluke

column. They L.lSluJuh J Z,lZZ T'"''". '" "'■"" "" f""' "' 'he
in line and l.aLl. could wTjveru," 3 TLe sS ''?'.T T^^''^' «'^"''"'
able to turn and f,.ll back ; Im,., *,!,"" S,tu° ^tZ ,'' '?'' "^f" P^y^cally
n.cn of the n,„,ian column w, re rbarml from „n„^ ""^''"""on. the front-rank
rear by the wci«ht of their o w! "m^TL,°Z r ■" "' '"*;'""'' """y '" ""e
Ihem ; and, it L„g too late rrtZ?l„T"d^h ''"'""« "P '^ *''"'''^' *^^>"^

thet;u^Tho"^tt5'r?:onrrrk''::;^rJi;T "r r"?!^'"'' •" "- -'™".

Grey or the InniskniinRcr to tear n Wt e™ .h'l'^'?l;'' '^^ "-^J' "'«'='«' "«
cannon-ball which is seen to be o,n ,! a d m, tT, l! ." ^"'""^ "'^~"^"' '" »
So, although by their charge .reif^^ I ""' be "bstrurtcl, but shunned.

«eight«,to8lmkrthedeplh!,f„^,,Z! ri" '^,''''' ^'''""" "° '''■"' "' '^"oh
or less shivered or s.^lcr^ 111 ^ Z ^^of Jhe ^^f '" "".'^ ""L"''''- "">• "»"•
«edge.work and Hghting, thet Z.^and ?•""'''''''•''>''''"' "'^"^^^
had led, >o his front line r ihtXs v Luou ■. 7 ".7 '"■ .• " ' *» '^™"««

the mon,ent of the first crash^ th^ ' K''Zrf,^J'- f r;"''"" " ""r' 'P''' f"™
received into the enemy's cohmm "u„dr<.), after more or less strife, were

aimlStTn^brf^r''!; wiiy:'';r„iv^hrie''r''' ^-^ - ^'"-'-^ '-'^«> -^ "- ^

K.™. a conju,;cture of c-tumstX '^h c^lr^cdf i^'Vf '^r*"'*^"' ' ■■ "
modern tunes, the descendants of the Covennntl; h " occurrence in

troopers could once n.ore l,e strrvinj in that kind nf^! 'Til'''?- 1" '"'" "''«"
period of our religious wars-ii Lt kind of elf n^'V'^J""'' """•''«' ""
individual soldier-^rou, his Ci^lTaf ^e "o'f ^'^tetl^'^a^d'-'luf^^rnto"';

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SCOTLAND FOR EVER

self-depending power. A Scots Grey, in Hie middle of our own century, might
have no enraging cause to inflame him ; but he was of the blood of those who are
warriors by temperament, and not because of mere reason. And he, too, had
rend his Bible. . . . When numbers and numbers of docile, obedient Russians
crowded round a Scot of this quality, and beset him on nil sides, it did not of
necessity result that they had the ascendant. Whilst his right arm was busy with
the labour of sword against swords, he could so use his bridle-hand as to be
fastening its grip upon the long-coated men of a milder race and tearing them
out of their saddles. . . .

The commander of the Uussian cavalry . . . resolved to surround the three
squadrons which were charging through the front of his column and enfold them
in the hug of the bear. Therefore on the right hand and on the left, the wings or
fore-arms which grew out from the huge massive trunk began to wheel each of
them inwards. . . .

The men of the 4th Dragoon Guards had been advancing with their swords
in their scabbanls, but at sight of a combat going on . . . instinctively drew. . ..
The sight of the enemy's cavalry delibemtely wheeling in upon the reor of a British
regiment kindled so vehement a zeal in the hearts of the Royals . . . that there
was no ceremonious preparation for a charge. A voice cried out, 'By God, the
Greys are cut off I Gallop 1 gallop I '

Alexander Miller, the acting adjutant of the Greys, was famous in the regiment
for the volume of sound which he drove through the air when he gave the word
of command. Over nil the clamour of arms, and all the multitudinous uproar,
his single voice got dominion. It thundered out, ' Rally I ' Then, btill louder,
it thundered, ' The Greys I ' , . .

It would be rash to assign to the attack of any one corps the change which now
supervened, but . . . presently those of the Russians who had hitherto mointaincd
their array caused or suffered their horses to back a little. . . . The ranks visibly
loosened. In the next instant the whole column was breaking. In the next, all
the horsemen . . , were galloping up the hillside and retreating by the way
they had come. . . .

The moment the Russian column was seen to be broken, our Dragoons were
greeted from afar by a cUeer from the 93rd Highlanders ; and before the brigade
liad completed its rally. Sir Colin Campbell galloped up. When he had come close
to the Greys, he uncovered and spoke to the regiment. * Greys I gallant Greys I '
he said, according to one of the versions, ' I am sixty-one years old, and if I were
young again I should be proud to be in your ranks.' . . . And an aide-de-camp
came down from liord Rnglnn with two gracious syllables for Scarlett conveyed
in the mess;ige, ' Well done I '

VII

A SCOTTISH AMAZON AT BALACLAVA

The Turks in their flight met a new and terrible foe. There cume out from the
camp of the Highland regiment a stalwart and angry Scotch wife, with an uplifted
stick in her hand ; and then, if ever in History, tlie fortunes of Islam waned low
beneath the manifest t^sccndant of the cross ; fur the blows dealt by this Christian
woman fell thick on the backs of the faithful. She believed, it seems, that, besides
being guilty of running away, the Turks meant to pillage her camp ; and the
blows she delivered were not mere expressions of scorn, but actual and fierce
punishment. In one 'istance, she laid hold of a strong-looking, burly Turk, and

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123

held him fast until she had beaten him for some time, and seemingly witli great
fury; she also applied much invective. Notwithstanding all graver claims upon
their attention, the men of the i>3rd were able to witness this incident. It mightily
pleased and amused them. It amuses men still to remember that the Osmanhs,
flying from danger and yearning after a blissful repose, should have chosen a line
of retreat where this pitiless dame mounted guard.

Krom Kiiiitlfiki' - luvnsUm ../ Ih,- ' rimi--i.

vrii

THE SCOTS FUSILIERS AT INKERMAN

By A.W, Kmglake

TuE two battalions of the Guards which Armstrong had found at Hill Iknd wcn-
the Grenadiers . . . and the Setits Fusiliers, tmder Colonel — now General Walker.
Together, they had there a strength <>f more than 700 men. . . .

The Duke of Cambridge was, in one sense, opposing his 700 men to the whole
of the thirteen battalions directed against the English position. . . .

At some distance in rear of the Grenadiers, the Scots Fusilier Guimls had been
advancing in line under a goi>d deal of tire, and already suffering losses; but the
battalion at length was halted, and the men, after having closed in, were made to
lie down. When the Grenadiers . . . had faced roimd to the east, they no longer
covered the front of the Scots Fusiliers ; and Colonel Walker g illopcd forward to
reconnoitre the now unguarded ground which lay straight before him. . . . Pre-
sently when at the crest, and looking dow^n thence in the direction of bis own
front, he saw two of the enemy's columns coming up unopposctl from St. Clement's
Gorge. . . .

The Russians pushed on their advancr, and the two solid columns apparently
became more or less interfused ; fnr what now met the eyes of the Scots Fusiliers,
and at a distance of only about fifty yards from the bmw, was a single though far-
spreading mass of the grey-coated soltliery — a mass loosened out from the effect
of its march through dense brush-wiKxl, but stilt plainly held together as an
organised body.

When he judged that the moment was ripe. Colonel Walker caused his Scots
Fusiliers to deliver a volley and charge. The Russian throng, stricken l)y fire,
and not awaiting the bayonet, rolled back in some haste duwn the steeps, and the
colonel was leading forward his men to press it"! retreat when on aidc-dc-cantp
reached him with orders to stay the pursuit. . . .

The Scots Fusiliers, after having been rc<'aili;il from their pursuit, were at
length drawn up in their place on the left of the Grenadiers. . , .

Against both fronts the enemy's masses were still in u condition t<t advance,
for after their previous discomfiture they had not been pursued, and after
forming anew, they could easily repeat their attacks. Troops able in this way to
rally in safety after every defeat, and conscious of their great ascendant in numbers,
did not fail to make their onsets again and again. . . .

A column of Russian infantry was advancing ujMm the Sandbag Hattery, when
Colonel Walker, with the rest of his battalion, fired a volley into the bulk of the
column, and cha-jing immediately aftei^vards, drove it down the hillside, the
enemy, this time, retreating in disorder as well as in haste. Walker, following
and pursuing with fire, increased the confusion ; but again, as before, he was
orertaken by an aide-de-camp with orders to stay his advance. He chafed at the

128 SCOTLAND FOR EVER

wholesome restraint when he saw the beaten column enjoy its immunity, and re-
form at the bottom of the hill. ...

The column when restored to order advanced once more up to the crest, and
ugam, as before. Colonel Walker undertook to meet it with the remains of his Scots
tusihers. The Fusiliers delivered their Are, but the Russians, though scathed,
ilid not turn. Walker ordered his battalion to charge. Colonel Blair, riding
onwani before the line, was struck down mortally wounded, and Drummond, the
adjutant (dismounted), who hud also come to the front, received a shot through
tlie bo<ly ; but already the Scots Fusiliers had sprung forward with their bayonets
down at the charge,' and the enemy, shunning their steel, was driven pell-mell
down the hill. Walker, this time, was suffered to continue the pursuit as far as hil
own judgment warranted.

IVoni hiiimmt n/'t/ie ''riiiirit.

SCOTLAND'S NAME AND FAME
By Charles Mackay

Dkar brother Scots, (rom John o' Groats,

To Teviotdalp and Yarrow,
And you who thrive in other lands

Becaii-><- your own 's too narrow,
When round the board kind faces gleam,

And friends are blithe before us,
Be this the toast we honour most.

With ' Auld Lang Syne ' for chorus, —
■ S(rotland's name ! Scotland's fame !

Scotland's place in story !
Scotland's might I Scotland's right,

And immortal glory ! '

We 'II not forget the pnsent time,

That all too quickly passes.
Our wives and weans, and absent friends,

Brave men, and bonny lasses, —
But still the toast wc 'II honour mo^st,

AVhen parting looms before us,
And joining hands in friendsliip's bands.

Wr raise the hearty chorus, —
Is — * Scotland's name I Scotland's fame I

Scotland's place in story I
Scotland's might ! Scotland's right,

And immortal glory I *

CHAPTER VIII

The Indian Mutiny

18S7-5'J

THE SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS
The Story of the Ross-shire Buffs

"■""V.'!" li""?','""? "*■,""= Seafortlis „re descended from Frasei-'s Highlanders, the
old 78th (Highland) Heg.ment of Foot, which was raised in 1730, and disbanded
L" V-u ,^r''^7 first iMttalion, raised by the Karl of Seaforth in 1778, as the
Sealorth (Highland) Kegiment of Foot, was rcgimcntetl in 1780 as the 72nd
(Jllghland) Regiment of Foot, anil became in 182.3 the 72nd (Duke of Albany's
Own Highlanders) Regiment of Foot. The 2nd battalion had been disbanded
with the 1st in 1763, but came into separate existence again in 1793 as the 78th
(llighlaiulers) Regiment of Foot, and was commonly known as the Ross-shire
Buffs binee 18S1 the two battalions have shared the title of the Seaforth
Highlanders.

The old 72iid was made up so largely of men of the name of Macrae that it
got the nltemative nicknames of ■ The Wild .Macraes ' and ' The Regiment of the
Macraes Fr«m one of its mottoes, the Gaelic Cuidiclin RMi (' Help to the King ')
It was also dubbed ' The King's Men.' The Scaforths have played a great part in
the wars of the British Knipirc during the last century and a half, and in the
number of its battle honours stamls almost equal with the Black Watch These
are some of the more important of the campaigns and actions in which this
distmgiiished regiment has been engaged :

Luuisbourg. 175S.
Quebec. 1751).
India, 1780-97.
Carnatic. 1780.
.Mysore. 178.1.
Cuddatorc. 17H.'t.
Bangalore. 1701.
Scringapatam. 170-'.
Pondieherry, 179:t.
Handers, 1794-3.
Ouildermalsen, 179J.
Quiberon, 1793.
.\hmcdnuggar. IHOa.
.Vssave. 18i>.'I.
Maida. 1800.

Cajic of Good Hope, I Koti.
Egypt. 1«()7.
Ilosulla. 1807.
Java, 1811.
Xethcrlands. 1814-1. V
.Vntwerp, 1814.
South Africa, isa.'*.
Kerteh. I8S4,
Sevastopol, 185.).
Pcisia, 1836-7.
Indian Mutiny, 1857-8.
Koosh-ab, 1857.
Cawnporc, 1837.
Lueknow. 1837.
India, 1838.

Peiwar Kotal. I87.S.
ChanLsiuh. 1879.
-Mglianistan, 1878-80.
Kabul, 1879.
Kandahar. 1880.
Kg>-pt. 1882.
Kassassin, 1882.
Tcl-cl-Kcbir, 1882.
Cliitral, 1805.
Atbara. 1808.
Khartoum. 1809.
South Afriia. 1890-190-.'.
Magersfontcin. 1900.
Paardeberg. 1900.
Thabanchu, 1900.
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THE BLACK WATCH AT BAREILLY

TUE Sikhs and our light company advanced in skirmishing order when somr

iven to eight hundred n.atehlock-nun opcu.d fire on tl,em and all at onee a

,ost furious eharge „ as „>ade l,y . body ol' about tl.ree Inrndm and s.x^y « MU

i;l,&zis who rushed out, shouting, ■ BumiMA .' Allalt! Allah! U.lnl ""»•

Si S'i.r™s e ose by, and ealled out, • i;ha.is, Oh&z.is 1 Close up the ranks !

Davone them as they come on.' However, they n.elined to our kit and only a

fc„- eame ..To the 93rd, and those were mostly bayoneted by the hght eon.pany

hieh wa^ extended in front of the line. The main tody rusi.ed o,. the eenire

of he «nd : but OS soon as he saw them eha.,ge their d.reet.o.., b.r Col... galloped

on shotting out, 'Close up, 12nd I Hayonet them as they eorae o,. Uut

thit w™ not so csily done. The Gh&/.is eharged w.th bhrnllury w.th the.

ound shieUs on their left arms, their bodies bent low, wav...g the.r tulwars over

he heads, throwing then.selves under the bayonets, and cutting ■" '"^ -n™^

eg Col.,..-, 'anieron, of the I'ind, was pulled from h.s horse by a 4. , » bo

eined u,, a-.d seized him bv the colh.r while be was engnge.1 w.th another on the

opTolte'sUe; b..t his life" was saved by Colour-Sergeant G"f ""•"';<';, '^^^^

one of the eneu.y's tulw4rs, and rusb..iR to the colonel s ossistanee cut olf the

Gh&^'s lead t;c,Kr..l \Va pole was also pulled off his horse and reee.ved two

tw„rd-cu s but was rescued by the bayonets of the 4'ind. The struggle wa^

tort but every one of the Ghfcis was killed. None attcnpted to escape ; they

had evWently eo.nc on to kill or be killed, a..d a hu,.dred and tlurty-three lay .n one

circle right in front of the colours of the 42nil.

From Forl>e. Mil.liell- llrnanuienri, itflk^ drtat MuMS.

' BRING ON THE TARTAN I '

We advanced thro..gh the village and came in front of the Seeundrab&gh, when a
li^e^us fire was opened on us fro.,, the loopholed wall and from the w...dows
and tot roof of a two-storied b..ildi,.g in the centre of tte g;.rdcn. . . . The
tunj&bis dashe.1 over the n.ud wall shuuth.g the war-cry of the b.kbs . le.l b>
tireii two European officers, who were both shot down before they had gone a few
TOids This st^ggere.1 the Sikhs a..d they halted. As soon as S.r Col.n s..w them
wave;, he turned^l. Colonel Ewart, who was in eo,o.na..d of the seven eoo.parnes
of the93M (Colonel Leith-Hay being in co...n.and of the assau ), and s,..d, Colo..el
Ewart t.rhg on the tartan-let ray own lads at them.' Uefore (he eo,.,n,a.,d
«,uH be repeated or the buglers h..d tin.e to sound the advance the whole seven
™mpa^eOike one man, leaped over the wall with such a yell of pent-,.p rage as
VhTnever heard before ..or since. It was m.t a cheer but a eonce..tr,.ted yell o
rage and ferocity that m,.de the echoes r...g again, and ,t m..st have stn.ek terror
"to the defcders, for they actually ceased flring, and we e.,.. d see then through
he breach rushing from the outside wall to take shelter in the two-stor.ed bu.lding
n the centre of the ganlen, the gate and doors of which they f'"" Jf '';-:;<^;,^ «;"
I must not on.it to pay a tribute of respect to the men.ory of 1 .pe-M,,,or John
M"LtHl"wl.o with seven pipers, the other three be.ng w.th the.r eo.npan.es attaek-
mg the barracks, stn.ek'np the Highland Charge, caled by soo.e T be Ha,.gh
of Crom.lale,' and by others ' On wi' the Tartan '-the famous d.:.rge of the Great
Mon tr^ e when he led his Highlanders so often to v.etory. When all was over

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and Sii Colin compliincntol the pipe-major on the wuy he had played, John said,
' I thought the boys would fecht better wi' the national music to cheer them.'

>'r«m FortiK. Mitrtiell'i Itrminuiruem tifllir firmt Muhnti.

ON THE ROAD TO CAWNPORE
By W. H. Fitchett

IUtelock had about the tiniest force that ever set luilh to the tusit of savins a"
empire. It never was able to put on the actual battlifuld 1300 men. There
were 76 men of the Hoynl Artillery; U>s than 400 of the Madras Fusiliers; less
than 800 of the TStb Highlanders ; 4n5 men of the Ith aiul lOO ot the Stllj, with
430 Sikhs of somewhat doubtful loyalty ; ami M native irregular horse, whose
disloyalty was not in the least doubtful. Ibiveloek's reliable eavalrv consisted
of 20 volunteers, amateurs mostly, under Barrow. .Measured against the scale of
modem armies, Havelock's force seems little more than a corporal's guard. But
the fighting value of this little army was not to be measured by counting its files.
' Better soldiers,' soys Archibald Forbes, ' have never trod this eartli.' They
commenced their march from Allahabad or .July 7 ; they marched, and fought,
and conquered under the intolerable heat of an Indian midsummer, and against
overwhelming o<lds ; until when, on September IB— httle more than eight weeks
afterwards— Outram and Ilavelock crossed the Ganges in their advance on
Lucknow, only 250 of Havelock's ' Ironsides ' were left to take part in that
advance. In the whole history of the world, men liavi seldom dared, and endured,
and achieved more than did Havelock's column in the gallant but vain struggle
to relieve Cawnpore.

Maude commanded its tiny battery ; Hamilton led the Highlanders ; Stirling
the 04th ; the gallant ill-fated Kennud, the Fusiliers. Stuart Beatson was Have-
lock's assistant adjutant-general; Fraser Tytler was his assistant quart< rniastcr-
general. Of the Highlanders— the Ross-shire Buffs— Forbes sav^, ' It was a
remarkable regiment. Scottish to the backbone ; Highland to fli core of its
heart. Its ranks were filled with Mackenzies, Macdonalds, Tulloclis, Maenubs,
Rosses, Gunns, and Maekays. The Christian name of half the grenadier eom|iany
was Donald. It could glow with the Highland fervour ; it coulil be sullen with the
Highland doumcss ; and, it may be added, it could charge with the stem and
irresistible valour of the north.'

When the httle force began its march for Cawnpore, the soil was swampy with
the first furious showers of the rainy season, and in the intervals of the rain the
skies were white with the glare of an Indian sun in July. ' For the first three days,'
says Maude, ' they waded in a sea of slush, knee-deep now, and now breast-high,
while the flood of tropical rain beat down from overhead. As fir to right and left
as eyecould pierce extended one vast morass.' After these tin lays' toil through
rain and mud, the rains vanished ; the sky above them bccai. like white flame,
and, till they reached Cawnpore, Havelock's troops had to march and fight under a
sun that was wellnigh as deadly as the enemy's bullets.

On July Jl Havelock marched fifteen miles under the intolerable heat to
Awapore. Camping for a few hours, he started again at midnight, picked up
Renaud's men while the stars were yet glittering in the heaven, pushed steadily
on, and at seven o'clock, after a march of sixteen miles, camped at Belinda, four
miles out of Futtehpore. The men had outmarched the tents and baggage, and
were almost exhausted. They had fallen out and were scattered under the trees,
' some rubbing melted fat on their blistered feet, others coohng their chafes in the

180 SCOTLAND FOR EVER

pools; many too dead-bcatcn to do anything but lie itilL' It wai Sunday
morning.

Suddenly there broke above the groups of tired loldiery the roar of cannon.
Grape-shot swept over the camp. Over the crest and down the opposite ilopei
rode, with shouts and brandished tulw&rs. a huge mass of rebel cavalry. It was a
genuine surprise I But the bugles rang out shrilly over the scattered clusters of
Havelock's men. They fell irstantly into formation ; skirmishers ran to the
front, and the enemy's cavalry came to an abrupt halt. It was a surprise for
them too. They had expected to sec only Renaud's composite force — a mere
handful ; what they beheld instead was Havelock's steady and workmanlike
front.

Havelock did not attack imm>^iately. His cool judgment warned him that
his over-wearied soldiers needed rtst before being flung into the fight, and orders
were given for the men to lie down in the rank. Presently the rebel cavalry
wheeled osiJe, and revealed a long front of infantry, with batteries of artillery ;
and the rebel general, finding the British motionless, actually began a movement
to turn their fiank.

Then Havelock struck, and struck swiftly and hard. Maude's battery was
sent forward. He took his pieces at a run to within two hundred yards of iini
enemy's front, wheeled round and opened fire. The British infantry, covered by a
spray of skirmishers armed with Enfield rifles, swept steadily forward. The rebel
general, conspicuous on a gorgeously adorned elephant, was busy directing the
movements of his force ; and Maude tells the story of how Stuart Beatson, who
stood near his guns, asked him to ' knock over that chap on the elephant.* * I
dismounted,' says Maude, ' and laid the gun myself, a 9-pounder, at a ** line of
metal " (700 yards) range, and my first clear shot went in under the beast's tail
and came out at his chest, rolling It over and giving its rider a bad foil.*

Its rider, as it happened, was Tantia Topee, the Nana's general ; and had that
0-pound ball struck him, instead of his elephant, it might have saved the lives of
many of the women and children in Cawn))ore.

Meanwhile, the 64th and the Highlanden> in one resolute charge had swept
over the rebel guns. Renaud, with his Fusiliers, had crumpled up their flank,
and the Nana's troops, a torrent of fugitives, were in full flight to Futtehpore, The
battle was practically won in ten minutes, all the rebel guns being captured — so
fierce and swift was the British advance.

The rebel Sepoys knew the fighting quality of the sahibs ; but now they found
a quite new fierceness in it. Havelock's soldiers were on fire to avenge a thousand
murders. And, flying fast, as Trevelyan puts it, the Nana's troops ' told everj'-
where that the sahibs had come back in strange guise; some draped like women,
to remind them ^/hat manner if wrong they were sworn to requite; others,
conspicuous by tall blue caps, w.io hit their mark without being seen to fire * — the
native description of the Enfield rifle, with which the Madras Fusiliers were armed.
The fight at Futtehpore is memorable as being the *irst occasion on which
British troops and the rebel Sepoys met in open battl he Nana had shortly

before issued a proclamation announcing that the Britisi i '■ all been destroyed
and sent to hell by the pious and sagacious troops who wei ^ rm to their religion ' ;
and. a. no trace of them was left, it became the duty of all the subjects of the
Government to rejoice at the delightful intelligence.' But Futtehpore showed
that * all the yellow-faced and narrow-minded people * had not been ' sent to hell.'
They had reappeared, indeed, with uncomfortable energy, and a disagreeable
determination to dispatch every Sepoy they could capture somewhere in that
direction.

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great rtrcngth in frent of a village cfll«l aII t„eMw. ^^' ''[■"" "P "
pore. Re,«ud led hi. Fusiliers 'u^Jht^tZ'imJiy I ° '"!''? '"""' "' ^awn-
bayonet charge, but the ga a"t Sr of th. • w^/ ' ""^ T!^'^ " "'"■ ' '""■"»
m the charge. Ulaude's g^M ^3.^ the ^1.™ •'" i' ' """"""y '""»''«1.
HigW.„dersand.hee4thw^,?.r'»,::l„^'o;;.S;<,;rflrf'^' """ "'»" "»

rain,, known a, PandTNudd«^tV.to^ hrir""" '^"''l'''*'' "'"> ««'■''
guanied by a 21-pound gun, a sToound o^^nH *! """^ "" """ = " «"
fiavclock quickly^devel^^ hh pTn of Xck Zt,' '*'"^ l"'" "' '"'"""y-

c%rtfe^tdr^fei'S^'t- r"^^^

^tiSer{^;sS5SSS-?^P-te

Shattered the parapet of the bridoe Lt th.^h "^^^ '"'''.""'y- The explosion

Fusiliers, their tayonet, sp^k "„g ^en^efuSr* Th%" m' T"^' """" ""

"PP""-, The bridge wa, carried, *theX taken the JliS'''" 'k"™'^ '"
the rebel centre pierced and broken and th. rl^' «b«' gunners bayon. ted,

with infinite dust and noise. taame«t„m!,rtf ""'^ '"'" ™'P' ""thw .rd>
The British cnmn^l r ,.1, ■ Tf "?■"" "f P-'mc-stricken flight.

mornin'gl'^r.h'eTt^^s^'rkhng'tUVv': ^Tf ^^ "■'« "''^i-k in the
the camp with its white iSit, Have™k foZi ," h ' ""''^ '"^ '"°°" """"ng
learned there were some two hund^^ J^ 5 '"'^n?"- «■= '"W them he had

^d'^r?^!?' '"' -"^v„rof'Sslr of''Sun'e''"^^™.^^i!!n'i''V^ """"""'
and the little ones,' he said, ' in the oowrr „f th„ 1 ' . '"'' "' °"' """"e"
answered with a shout, and? withoj^ wE» ?o, tt, ,!.'"'? ">«>mate.' The men
right • and took the road ^ '" "" """^ of eommand, went ' four,

-^ onheZt'h liSp".r/S; heat' '"^eV^, 'T'^ '"» ««"" Pant«g
were wholly unprepared for a summer ^ImS ^'«^''"^'" ^^"'"^ most; they
h«^ woollen Sou1.1et, inte'dTfrw?nTerr-'but"tT'°','''\l!^ *"'""8 ">«
blood sustained them. Every now and „™,n ^ "j Ji ^"^ ""bbom northern

Nat^artriiWtdSiF"^^^^^^^^

by. attack upon the Nana', posSn H™ mulS th^!.^"''.'^ "'"™' °' ™ "
of a company of the Fusilier anTtl,. "«"'»<> the enemy's front w th the fire
sabres, wMe with Id, whole^o,^ h \- "If ""'' "' Barrow's twenty voluntcM

Nana'J flank."'tt.^o:kthI°™ riskrht Sri

strike a daring blow for ^ictoiy **'^ ^"^ ""' communications to

hpiS^^rd^'^rtlTe^S^^^r're'SSi^ntXt.'fZrii^ \-'" ««>ve, they
Boys. Ch.er,'.nd the .ou„d^lde«;?e'"n;:„aTcgthrmlrZ.'j;^V.^^ti:^^^^^^

J32 SCOTLAND FOR EVER

„, .aded fury. The ^poy, ■'^"t.fJ'il^'tot.^'SXf o%l«ioc\^^^

"""xhi G^eUo U^ was still on fl«. Th. officers could hardly res^"™ their men
till they were roughly formed. In -"'her mc'n^.t the ^ 1'^^^^^™;^^'^,

Jh"r1uns dra^nfp in its front. f>f^J^^:-J^^t:^\^!mLe. shoulder to

r«ro:!f.ir:rh^; f epn^£^t^

blackened lines men ««7^,^t"™'>''"R '"" J^f^i e^Xh »^^^

■"""^e battle seemed won, and Havelock. re-forming his column mov^ stead.ly
forJari But Nana was playing his last card, and hu, KC""^^^' ',^^^"3
desperate courage. They made a 'h.^ .^'-"^f "^de^-'^^Xn eS side
within a short distance of Cawnpore ■'«" • ,^^^* P^T^'^ i„f"ntry. a solid mass,

""CSocf .Tweii hi, men to fling themselves panting on the ground for .

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few minutes; then, rijin(j to the fmnl, and turning hi> bnik to the cncmy'l
gun; fo u In face the men. he cried in hia keen, high-pitcheti vi.ice, ' The longer
vou look nt it, men, Ihe lesi you will like it I The brigmle will udvanoe— left
battalion leading.'

The left battalion win the 84th. Major Stirling promptly hnnighl fnrwald
hii leading glei, mid Hiivelock'« »on and nidede-canip gnlloped down, iiiul, riding
beside Stirling, ihan.l iv, h him the leadership of the charge— u ciriunntanie for
which the 61th, as a mjttler of fact, sriirccly fnrgiive him, as they wanted no better
leadership thiin that of their own ninjor. There was less of rfon and dash about
this cluirge than in the earlier charges of the day ; but in steady valour it was
unsurpasKcd, . . .

VVh. n tl: steady but shot-lormriitcd line of the Otth founJ ilsilf so iicnr the
battery 'I ,it ihrough the whirling smoke llioy could see the toiling , ,in c rs and
the gleam of .Sepoy bayonets beyond them, then the Uritish soliliirs n, . tin ir
leap. Willi n shout thiy charged on and over the guns ami Ihroii).' I., linis
beliii ul, a: I N'nna Sahibs force wis ullirly and fiimlly crushed. Iluvclock had
nnh u sibre to launch at the flying fiw ; but liis tired infimlrv. »lio had walked
twiHlv niles. and fought, wilhout pause for four hi.urs. kepl'up the pursuit till
Hie outer .l^e . f {'■ wniKT ■ uis reached. Then Ilaveloek halted them; and,
piling anil. . ':■!■ r\!i . ,,, ,i wldicrs dropped in sections where lliev stood, falling
aslcei- on til' '■■tic ^li'iitui, eiircless of food or tents.

Fr,.iii T'il,-^ ofti.^ lti.iui» Milinif.

SIR COLIN CAMPBELL BEFORE LUCKNOW
By Forbes Mitchell

The 98id formci llie exlrcc e li ft of the line in q%art- ; ■Jibtui..c column, in full
Highhind costun'. ^, ivith featiicr .lonnety and rf.-.r': wiv i <; ph; i. s, a solid nuiss of
brawny-limbed niei. I have ntxer seen a iir :ri;!-tiii..;i,u vegimcnt tlian the
98rd looked that day, and I vai, and still u pn.,!.' U> !?.i • 'omied one of its
units.

The old chief rode along the line, eom.i:".!'^;;. !.: :■ \: ■ r: i,t, halting ■
addressing a short speech to each corjis as h ' I IMC ri ■ I'l . eg of the 'an
were eagerly turned towards Sir Colin and si 'J . . • . ■. . ,!, the n , re-
marking among thcmsilves tliiit none of the oi' . - e .. .. ■ u : . ii i ini a ■".•'(
cheer, but had taken w'l.itcvii he had said to tin, ■ .: " •■ •■ ,.! ice. At ,ust
be approached us. Wc were called to attention, and : •• .: . loe column, so that
every man might hear what was said. HTien Sir I'oli.i luJe up. he appeared to
have a worn and Imggard expression on hLs face ; but he was received with such a
cheer, or rather shout of welcome, as made the echoes ring from the Aluiiiliagh
and the surrounding woods. His wnnkied brow at once became smooth, and his
wearied-Iooking features broke into a smile, as he acknowledged the cheer by a
hearty salute, and addressed us almost exactly as follows. I stixxl near him and
heard every word. ' Ninety-third I when I'took leave of you in Portsmouth,
I never thought I should see you again. I expected the bugle, or maybe the
b*gpipes, to sound a call for me to go somewhere else long before you would be
likely to return to our dearly loveii home. But another commander has decreed
it otherwise, and here I am pi-ppiired to lead you tlirough another campaign. And
I must tell you, my lads, there is work of diHiculty and danger before us— harder
work and greater dangers than any we encountered in the Crimea. But I trust to
you to overcome the difficulties and to brave the dangers. The eyes of the people

184 SCOTLAND FOR EVER

^t hoinc-I may «y the eyes of Europe and of the whole of Chrirt«udom-«re upon
1-^1 we S relieve our countrymer., women and chUdren now rfiut up m tt«
SiWency oTLucknow. The live, at stake are "»' ™«'y "'^^'f"'S!'^^:
St well be expected to cut themselves out, or to die sword m hand. We have
S tsc" helple-women and children £™m a '»«' "''"tl'-"/"'''- ^-^ ^S^
m«t the enemy, you must remember that he is well armed and weU P™videdwith
^'nffon, a^ that he can play «t long bowls a. well a, you <=»». «'P~Wly
S behind loopholed walls. So when we make an atUck you must come to

3C« ™..?.r. as quickly us possible; ken> weU together, and use the Uyonet.

RememL that the cowarily Sepoys, who are eager to murder w"™""-! c^dx«.,

cannot look a European soldier in the face when .t u accompamrf with coW rteel.

Ninety-third I you are my own lads ; I rely on you to do the work 1

A voice from the ranks called out : • Ay. ay, Sir Cohn, ye ken "'.,»°d we ken

you i we Ml bring the women and children out o' Lucknow or die w. you m tte

attempt !■ and the whole regiment burst into another nngmg cheer, which wa.

token up Ly the whole line. ^.^^^ R.„i„i„^. V(». OrM. JH-ii.,.

SOME HEROES OF LUCKNOW
By D. C. Parry

The mutineers ru.,lied into the square ami began murdering the wounded.

wTth Surrcon Home were Swanson of the 78th C«Pt«m Becher. 40th Natave
Infaniry three wounded men, and nine soldiers, the remnant of the escort m yet
unhurt, ind their struggle for ' ' and Uie Uvcs of those poor fellows out m the

"'"Thrfgot Ifa'Cu^t^ugh an open door in the arch, and for half an hour
one maniept the yelhng crowd at bay. while the others shouted in chorus to
«n«Lp the rebels think they were more numerous. ... , . . ..

SurLeon Homewas thionly unwounded ofHcer in the house, and his time was
dividedrtw«n doming the other, and taking his f™ t" «- ■ «-'^"; * ""J"
w„ Zted at each window and three in the doorway, and through a bullet-hole
Tn thVshutter the surgeon saw a rebel creep *'thm three yaris of him

II. nromutlv killed him with his revolver, and Private Hollowell. of the Itoss

. Je Bu?s P k^ off another very neatly, after which there was a long pau«.

But suddenly there came a .lull rumble from the square that brought them

"' Thc'rumble ^lUuX -oWcd itself, not into a fleldpiece, which would have
finishS ttem but a large screen on wheels with which the rebels closed up the
SS,r,Vhutt™g the besieged up in a trap, as they hoped, to be burned out by
•■•ThrhrerulhtTe^rfmlVled in in choking volum«, a^d «« h«t
became unbearable ; but there was another door opemng on to the square, and
through that they resolved to make a last dash. „i,.__i

Ta "ing up three of their number who were the most badly hurt they charged
out «.d m Je for a shed ten yards away on the north side ; b'" ."'""g' t" tdU
toe wounded alone were struck again, all three subsequently dying, "M' 'h«
co^M reached the shed unhurt, though more than five hundred of the lur-
prised rebels are said to have fired at them as they ran.

Panting, they counted their numbers in that new retreat, and there were

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laa

only six left who could bear amis, the other four being unable to do more than
keep a look-out at the loopholes which riddled the shed's side. . . .

By placing a wounded man at each embrasure to give the alarm, they pre-
vented any serious casualty, but an awful thing occumd which froze the very
blood in their veins.

When in the house at the archway their rifles had to some extent protected
the miserable wounded still lying in their dhooUes in the square, but now they
were left powerless, and the Sepoys, stealing up to the farther side of each palan-
quin, began slowly to murder them with knives and bayoneUi, even burning some
alive.

The screams were heartrending ; men called in agonising voices for help ;
but the hideous work went on until the ground reeked like the floor of a slaughter-
house. . . .

Now came a fresh peril to the surgeon and his men in the shed, for, too craven
to attack in front where the rifles of M'Manus and Hollowell and Home's
revolver were waiting at the loopholes, a trampling overhead told them that the
enemy were breaking in the roof to fire down u{>on them.

Though the muzzles of the mutineers' muskets were within four feet of them,
none were seriously wounded, and as the little garrison could tell by the stamping
where the rebels were, many a Sepoy rolled off into the square, howling with pain,
or fell heavily and lay motionless where he fell.

Still the handful found it too hot to stand, and they broke a hole into the
courtyard, from which, when darkness came to their aid, Si^rgeon Home and one
of the men crept to a large mosque thirty yards away, into which the doctor
climbed by getting on to his comrade's shoulders.

The mosque was empty, and returning to the men who had remained on guard,
they beckoned to the others to follow.

There was some hesitation, and the Sepoys on the roof, detecting Home,
opened fire again, but thouf^h the two had to return post haste, they brought
with them a chatty of fresh water, which proved a veritable godsend. ...

The water gave them all a little gleam of hope, and posting sentries at various
parts of the shed, they prepared to pass the night of horrors, with the babble of
several who were delirious in their cars, and the catlike tread of tlie murderous
scoundrels above them.

More than one false alarm disturbed the silent hours j but the Sepoys even-
tually left the roof, and Lucknow seemed to be sleeping.

One man proposed to run out and attempt to escape, and two others offered
to join him, but the rest declined to leave the wounded ; and about two o'clock in
the morning they heard the sound of heavy firing not far off.

Madly they shouted with what voice was left to them, thinking it was a relit! ;
but the firing died away again, and bitter disappointment followed. ...

Hope then died out ; most of them cared little whether they lived or died,
until, soon after dawn . . . more firing was heard, and Private Regan shouted,
' Boys, them 's our own chaps ! '

* Cheer together, men 1 * exclaimed Surgeon Home, as they distinguished the
well-known ring of the Enfield rifles ; and they cheered together— a cheer with
more than one sob in it — but a cheer that was answered by another and another
ai our fellows charged into that ghastly * Dhoolie Square,* and swept it of its rebel
garrison, the rescued handful also firing their remaining shots as they rushed out
to join their deliverers.

The 98rd Highlanders won no less than seven Crosses in and about Lucknow. . . .

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SCOTLAND FOR EVER

In the fury and rush Private Mackay took a colour, not without a hard tussle
for it ; Grant killed five of the Sepoys in defence of an officer who had got posses-
sion of that or another ensign, for the account is vague ; Munro, a colour-sergeant,
rescued a wounded officer and carried him out, being severely wounded in doing so.
and stil] they had not finished in the nooks and comers of that charnel-house — not
until they left two thousand dead to be gathered in a pile to pollute the air for
days, as we learn from one who was present.

All four won the Cross, and their comrade Paton founded his claim when he
reconnoitred the neighbouring Shahnujjif under fire, and found the hole through
which they poured with their fierce slogan. On the same day Captain Stewart
led straight for the guns which commanded the mess-house, took them, and was
elected by his brother officers for the little bronze trinket.

But all these heroes pale before one other wielder of the basket-hilted claymore,
the late mighty M'Bean, as unassuming in manner as he was irresistible in war,
although not by any means a giant.

Nearer and nearer the British troops had drawn to the doomed stronghold of the
mutineers ; kites had actually been seen flying high up in the sky, while our guns
Ixmmed loudly ; but there came a moment when the self-satisfled rascals had no
time to think of amusements, and one of those moments was when the 08rd stood
at ease near the Begum Bagh Palace, waiting, in a remarkable silence, to repeat
their Secundrabagh experience. . . .

When the word was given, a curious angry cry rose from the ranks, rather a
snarl than a cheer, and almost immediately the tartan kilts were battling in the
breach. * Then was Adjutant M'Bean observed, hewing right and left ; tremendous
was his onslaught, and before he sheathed his sword the blood of eleven Sepoys
encrusted it, all slain single-handed.'

Some time afterwards, nt .i regimental parade, William M'Bean stood forward,
and General Sir R. Garrutt pinned the Cross on his breast with the words : 'This
Cross has been awarded to you for the conspicuous gallantry you displayed at the
assault of the enemy's position at Lucknow, on which occasion you killed eleven of
the enemy, by whom you were surrounded ; and a good day's work it was, sir.'

' Tutts,' said M'Bean, in his simplicity, forgetting altogether where he was ;
' it didna tak me twenty minutes.'

He had been un Inveniess-shire ploughman before he enlisted, and one anecdote
of him is worth recording.

A bullying non-com. haa made himself so objectionable that another private
suggested to M^Bean that he should get him in a quiet corner and punch his head.

' Tutts, men,' was the reply, ' 'twadna do at a* ; I am going to command this
regiment before I leave it, and 'twad be a bad start to thrash the drill corporal.'
He kept his word, passing through every rank with honour to himself and the 08rd.

From Parry't V.C

NOTE ON THE SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS

The 98rd was no ordinary regiment. They were then the most Scotch of all the
Highland regiments ; in brief, they were a military Highland parish, minister and
elders complete. The elders were selected from among the men of all ranks —
two sergeants, two corporals, and two privates ; and I believe it was the only
regiment in the army which had a regular service of comnnmion-plate ; and in
time of peace the Holy Communion, according to the Church of Scotland, wai
administered by the regimental chaplain twice a year.

From Forb«« Mitchell'i Rtminitrtneei «/(*# Orraf itulivy.

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18T

VIII

THE STORMING OF LUCKNOW
By W. H. Fitchett

On the morning of the 9th Outram's giuis opened on the first line of the Sepoy
defences, that to which the canal served as h wet ditch, with (ire that swept it
from flank to flank. Cam))br]l wan pouring the lire of PcrTs fftms upon tlie
Martinere, which served as a sort of outwork to the long nmal runipart, and nt
two o'clock the Illdhland rcjjimcnts — the 42nd U-a(iin<:. and the l»3rd in support —
were launched on tlie enemy's position. Tlie men of the HUrd were too impatient
to be content with 'supporting' the 42nd, and the two regiments raced down
the slope side by side. Karthworks, trendies, rifle-pits were IcHixd or clambered
over, and almost in a moment the Sepoys were in wild ilifrht iieross the canrii.
The Highlanders, with the 4th Punjaub Rifles, followed Tlirm cnscrly, and broke
through the enemy's first line.

Outram's first battery, as we have said, was sweepinj; this line with a cruel
flank of fire. The Sepoys had been driven from their guns in the batteries that
abutted on the river, and they seemed to be deserteil. Adrian Hope's men were
attacking, at that moment, the farther or southern eiul of the line ; and Butler,
of the Ist Bengal Fusiliers, with four privates, ran down to the bank of the river
and tried to attract the attention of the British left, sonic third of a mile distant ;
but in vain. The river was sixty yards wide, the current ran swiftly, the farther
bank was held by S -poy batteries ; and though no Sepoy could be seen, yet it
might well be that scores were crouching under its shelter. Butler, however,
with the ready daring of youth, threw off his coat and boots, scrambled down
the river bank, plunged into the stream, and swam across it. lie climbed up
the farther bank, mounted the parapet of the abandoned work, and standing
there, waved his anns to the distant Highlander'. It was not a verj- heroic
figure 1 His wet uniform clung to his limbs, the water running down hair ond
face. The Sepoys nigh at hand opened a sharp fire upon him. But still that
damp figure stood erect and cool, showing clear against the sky-line.

Butler was seen from the British left, and the meaning of his gestures under-
stood ; but a staff officer, with more punctiliousness than common sense, objected
to the troops moving along the line till orders had been received to that efect.
So a brief delay occurred. Still that damp figure stood aloft, shot at from niaiiy
points, but vehemently signalling. Now the Highlanders and Sikhs came eagerly
on, and Butler, having handed over to them the battery which, wet and unharmed,
he had captured, scrambled down into the river, and swam back to rejoin his
regiment. It was a gallant feat, and the Victoria Cross, which rewarded it, was
well earned.

That night the British were content with holding the enemy's first line. On
the 10th Campbell, who, for all his hot Scottish temper, was the wariest and most
deliberate of generals, was content with pushing Outram's batteries still farther
up the north bank, so as to command the mess-house and the Begum's Palace.
On the left, the building known as Bank's House was battered with artillery and
carried. The two blades of the scissors, in a word, had been thrust far up into
the city, and now they were to be closed. Betwixt the positions held to the
right and to the left, stood the great mass of buildings known as the Begum
Kothe, the Begum's Palace. This was strongly held, and the fight which carried
it was the must stubborn and bloody in the whole operations of the siege.

The guns played fiercely upon it for hours ; by the middle of the afternoon

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a slight breach had been effected, and it waa raolTcd to aaiault. Forbe*
Hitchell lays that the men of the Mid were flniihing their dinners when they
noticed a stir among the itaff ofBcen. The brigadien were putting their heads
together. Suddenly the order was given for Uie Mrd to fall in. ' This was
quietly done, the officers taking their places, the men tightening their belu,
and pressing their bonnets flrmly on their heads, loosening the ammu ni tion in
their pouches, and seeing that the springs of their bayonets held tight.' A few
seconds were spent in these grim preparations, there came the sharp word of
command that stiffened the whole regiment into an attitude of silent eagemeas
— the Begum's Palace was to be rushed.

It was a block of buildings of vast size and strength. The breach was little
more than a scratch in the wall of the gaUway, which it needed the activity of a
goat to cLmb, and which only British soldiers, daringly led, would have under-
taken to assault in the teeth of a numerous enemy. And there were nearly Bve
tliousand Sepoys within that tangle of courts I The storming party conaisted
of the 98rd and the 4th Punjaub Rifles, led by Adrian Hope. The 98rd led, the
Punjaubees were in support, and the rush was fierce and daring. It is said that
the adjutant of the 98rd, M'Bean, cut down with his own sword no less than
eleven of the enemy, in forcing his way through the breach ; and he won the
Victoria Cross by his performance. He was an Inverness ploughman when he
enlisted in the ODrd, and he rose through all its ranks until he commanded the
regiment.

Captain H'Donald was shot dead while leading his men. His senior lieu-
tenant took the company on, until the charging crowd was stopped by a ditch
eighteen feet wide, and from twelve to fourteen feet deep. The stormers leaped,
with hardly a pause, into the ditch, but it seemed impossible to climb up the
farther bank. Wood, of the grenadier company, however, clambered on to the
shoulders of a tall private, and, claymore in hand, mounted the farther side.
The spectacle of a Highland bonnet and menacing claymore making its appear-
ance above the ditch, proved too much for the Sepoys. They fled, and Wood
pulled up man after man by the muzzle of his rifle — the rifles, it may be men-
tioned as an interesting detail, were all loaded, aijd on full cock 1 Highlanders
and Punjaubees, racing side by side, had now broken into the great palace. Every
doorway was barred and loopholed, and the Sepoys fought desperately ; but
the Highlanders, with Uie Punjaubees in generous rivalry, broke through barrier
after barrier, till they reached the inner square, filled with a mass of Sepoys.
' The word,' Forbes Mitchell says, was ' Keep well together, men, and use the
bayonet,' and that order was diligently obeyed. The combat raged for over two
hours, the pipe-major of the 98rd blowing his pipes shrilly during the whole
tine. * I knew,' he said afterwards, * our boys would fight all the better while
the ' heard the bagpipes.' When the main fight was over, in the inner court of
the Begum's Palace, alone, over 860 of the enemy lay dead. Colin Campbell
himself described it as ' the sternest struggle which occurred during the siege.'

The most gallant, but ill-fated soldier, Adrian Hope, personally led one of
the storming parties. It is said that he got in thiougb a window, up to which
he was lifted, and through which he was pushed by his men. He was sent head-
long and sprawling upon a group of Sepoys in the dark itiom inside. That
apparition of the huge, red-headed Celt tumbling upon them, sword and pistol
in hand, was too much for the Sepoys, and they fled without striking a blow.

From r»lfi/thf Inrliun Jfu/tny.

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THE INDIAN MUTINY

!•»

THE PIPES OF LUCKNOW
ByJ.CWhittier

Pipes of th« misty moorlands.

Voice of the glens and hills.
The droning of the torrents.

The treble of the rills I
Not the brmes of broom and heather.

Nor the mountains dark with rain,
Nor maiden bower, nor border tower.

Have heard your sweetest strain I

Dear to the lowland reaper

And plaided mountaineer, —
To the cottage and Uie castle

The Scottish pipes are dear, —
Sweet sounds the ancient pibroch

O'er mountain, loch, and glade ;
But the sweetest of all music

The Pipes at Lucknow played.

Day by day the Indian tiger
Louder yelled and nearer crept ;

Round and round the jungle-serpent
Near and nearer circles swept.

* Pray for rescue, wives and mothers, —

Pray to-day,' the soldier said ;

* To'morrow, death *s between us

And the wrong and sbame we dread.*

0, they listc^ned, looked, and waited.
Till their hope became despair ;

And the sobs of low bewailing
Filled the pauses of their prayer.

Then up spake a Scottish maiden.
With her car unto the ground :

* Dinna ye hear it T — dinna ye hear it t

The Pipes of Havelock sound I '

Hushed the wounded man his groaning ;

Hushed the wife her little ones ;
Alone they heard the ('rum-roll

Aiul the roar of Sepoy guns.
But to sounds of home and childhood

The Highland ear was true ;—
As hcT mother's cradle-crooning

The mountain pipes she knew.

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Like the march of loundles!! music

Through the vision of the seer,
More of feeling thnn of hearing,

Of the heart than of the ear.
She knew the droning pibioch.

She knew the Campbell's call :
' Hark I hear ye no' MucGregor's,—

The grandest c' them all ! '

O, they listened, dumb and breathless.

And they caught the sound at last ;
Faint and far beyond the Giwmilee

Rose and tell the pipers' blast I
Then a burst of wild thanksgiving

Mingled woman's voice and man's :
' Cod be pmiscil I— the march i)f llavelock I

The piping of the clans I *

Louder, nearer, fierce as vengeance,

Sharp and shrill as swords at strife.
Came the wild MacGregor's clan-call

Stinging all the air to life.
But when the far-off dust-cloud

To plaidcil legions grew.
Full tenderly and blithesomcly

The pipes of rescue blew I

Round the silver dmiies of I.ucknow,

Moslem mosque unti Pagan shrine.
Breathed the iiir to Uritnns dearest.

The air of Auld L;iiig Syne.
O'er the cruel roll of war-driims

Rose that sweet and homelike stRun ;
And the tartan clove the turhun.

As the Goomlee clciivp* the plain.

Dear to the ctmi-land reaper.

And plnided mountaineer, —
To the citttage imd the cjistle.

The piper's .soni; is ilmr.
Sweet sounds the Gaelic pibroch

O'er mountain, glen, and glade ;
But the sweetest of nil music

The Pipes of I.ucknow played.

A SURGEON OF THE SEAFORTHS

•Si'RGEON Joseph Jee was selected by his brother officers for the Victoria Crow.
On September 'iS, 1857, the 78tli Highlanders had been left behind to protect
llip passage of the Char Bngli Bralge. The ri.. my, seeing their isolated position,
gulhcred round them from evcrv i|uartrr, occupying all the neighbouring build-
ings. From the tops of these came a perfect hail of musket-bullets, while two

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141

heavy guns were rnfilading the regiment with deadly accuracy. Ordered not
to tnoTe till every Imtlock had crossed the bridge, the regiment lur a long time
remained hiJted. At length, becoming desperate, they charged the guns, dashing
up the street with a loud cheer, led by their adjutant, whose hone had been khot
under liim. They were received by a volley, and men dropped in numbers ;
but the survivors persevered, reached the guns, and after a short, sharp struggle,
captured them. Dr. Jee contrived, by great pcrsnniil exertions, in getting the
wounded wh>> had been hit in the charge carried off on thv harks of their comrades,
till he had «ucci.vde(l in collecting the dhooly •bearers wtiu had fli-d. He h said
to have exposed himself in the most devoted manner.

* Later on, while trying to reach the Residency with the wounded under his
charge, he was obliged to throw himself into the Moti Melml, where he remained
besieged the whoh- of the following night and morning.*

The official account soys that ho rci>eatcdly exjMwed himself to a heavy fire
in proceeding to dress the wounded men who fell while serving a 24'i)Ounder
in a most exposed situation. He eventually succeeded in taking many nf the
wounded, through a cross-fire of ordnance and murlittry, s«fcly into the Resi-
dency, by a river bank, although repeatedly warned not to make the perilous
attempt.

From Ofi.iui nifx-n.

THE FLAG OF THE REGIMENT

Tlir adJrw of Uin i-Uri'llemy, Sir llufih Hoti\ ('i,mmiiniirr-in-''hi'-f in Iniiin, tin i-rrnfitlini/ tttw cviuurt
l<i thf i2tid Itoyal liujhiuwirTM nt Hiirri .y, «ji tl,r Ul J'lnifiri/ IWJl.

' 42nd Hiom^NDEBa,

' I do not ask you to defend the colours I have presented to you this day.
It would be superfluous : you have defended them for nearly a hundred and fifty
years with the best blood of Seotliind. I ilo n<)t usk you to curry these colours
to the front should you again he eallid into the field ; you have borne them
round the world with success. But I do ask tlie ulliccrN and soldiers of this
gallant and devoted regiment not to t'orpt, because they are of oneient date,
but to treasure in their mei-;* ms ilie rccolhetion of the brillinnt deeds of arms
of their forefathers and kinsmcu, the scenes of which are inscribed on these colours.
There is not a name on them which is not a study ; there is not n name on them
which is not connected with the most im[>ortant events «■.■ A'>rld s history,

or with the pages of the military annals of Kngland.

'The soldiers of the i'Jnd eutmot liave a better or ;n'"".- ■ is!rirtiv history
than their regimental records. They tell how, a liundr.'d y.ai- ; . o, the 42i'd
won the honoured name of '" Royal " at Tieonderoga in America, 1 : ii;, altlmn^"
only one battalion, 047 killed and wounded; how the 4i;;..? !'n. -,,■.{ the " '".
Heckle " in Flanders ; how Abercroml)y and Moore in I'-gypt tki.'. .. P:aiii, ''vin
in the arms of victory, thanked with parting' breath the 42nd, ^.ell miy; :. ' ■
heroes do so I The fields of honour on which they were exiiiriiii; were stuv, d
with the dead and wounded soldiers of the 42nd.

'The 42nd enjoys the greatest distinction to which British re 'mti;: : ran
aspire. They have been led and commanded by the Rrcat Master in \\\i:. i.'ie
Duke of Wellington. Look at your colours : their badges will ttil you how uiivix
— and this distinction is the more to be valutd because his Grace, so .ioldier-i'^—
and just was he, never would sanction a regiment's wearing a bodge if the battle

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in which they had hecn engaged — no matter how bravely they nuy have fought
in it — waa not only an important one but a victory.

' In the Crimea* in the late campaign in tliia country, the 4Snd again did
excellent lervice under my very gallant and di»tinguiabed predeceMor, Lord
Clyde. The lait entry in the regimental recordi ihowi that the ipirit of the
BUek Watch of 1720 was the lame in ISSO, when No. a company of the 4aDd,
aided only by a company of the Kumaon levy, four guns, and a squadron of
irregukr cavalry, under Sir Robert Walpole, beat back, after several hours'
obstinate Bghting. and with severe loss, two thousand rebels of all arms, and
gained the day. Lord Clyde bestowed the highest i raise on the company that
a general can do — his lordship thanked them for their valour and their discipline.

' I am sincerely obliged to Lieutcnant-ColonrI Priestly for having, un the part
of the 42nd Highlanders, requested me to present them with their new colours.
It is an honour and a favour which I liighly prize, the more so because 1 am of
Highland origin and have worn for many years tlie tartan of another regiment
which does undying honour to Scotland— the l>2nd llighlanden.

' I have chosen this day— New Year's Day— for the presentation of colours,
because on New Year's Day in 1783 the colours were given to the 42nd, under
which they won their red plume. Besides, New Year's Day ail over the world,
particularly in Scotland, is a happy day. Heaven grant that it may be a fortunate
one for this regiment.*

CHAPTER IX

Frontier Campaigns in India, and Native
Wars in Africa and Egypt

1852-1808

THE GORDON HIGHLANDERS
The Story of the Regiment

Amkt from KgimenUI hi»torie», whkh are not to written as to make much
•ppeal to the general reader, the only itgimeiits in the British Amiy that have
tad the grtiit sti.nes of lh(ir pait movingly and dramatically narrated are the
Black Watch and the Gordon Highlanders. In his Lfgendt of Ihe Black Watch
•nd m some of his novels, James Grant has clothed the records of tliat imllant
corps with the glamour of romance that of right belongs to it— for there is nothing
more ronuintic then the truth, when it falls into hands that can re-endow it with
life. Uant dealt with the Gordons in The Romance o/ IFiii-— indeed, no regiment
taai had more histories written round it. It has been elaborately dealt with by
Lieut.-Col Greenhill Gardync i and by Mr. J. M. Bulloch in Territorial Soldiering,
The Cay Gordom, and in divers articles and miscellaneous publications. More-
over, the Gordons are fortunate in a succinct hisUiry of their achievements in
Mr. James Milne's The Gordon IlighUmderi.

The two battalions of the Gordon Highlanders were raised in Scotland as two
lepurate regunents ; the Ist, under Sir Robert Abeicromby, as the rsih Regiment
of Foot, in 17S8 ; the 2nd by the famous House of Gordon, as the lOOth (Gordon
Highlanders) lUgiment of Foot, in 1794. The 1st, thrice disbanded or dispersed
foi- garrison service and then re-fomied, varied its name to the 73th (Prince of
Wales s) Regiment; the 7Sth (Highland) Regiment, otherwise Abercromby's
Highlanders, to the plain 7Sth Regiment of Foot ; and then, in 1802, to the 7Sth
(iitirlingshu-c) Regiment. Meanwhile, after four years as the 100th, the 2nd
batUlion became the familiar 92nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot in 1798 • in
1881. the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment; and in 1881 both batUl'ions
were joined under the name they have continued to make glorious m our recent
wars— the Gordon Highlanders. When the 7Sth, which wore trews, was thus
merged into the 92nd, which wore the kilt, some wag of the regunent wrote this
epiUph, which b still to be found in Sa Maison Gardens, near Florence Barracks
Malta :

Here lies the poor old Seventy-fiftli,
But, under liod'a protection,

Thry 'II rise kgajn in kilt and hose,
A glorious resurrection !

For by the transrormstion poHcr
Of PjirlianientsrT Uwii,

We go to bed the Seventy-fifth
And rise the Ninety-twa't !

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The following list of their principal campaigns and battles says
be said here in pniise of the Gordons :

til that need

n,lk-Isle. 1701.
Portugal, 1"62.
America. 177H-H3.
India, 1791-1806.
Scringapatam, 1792.
Malabar an<l Goa, 1795-7.
Mysort', 1799.
Seringapatam, 1709.
Crabbendum, 1799.
UergLn, 1799.
Ef,Tnont-op-2t'e, 1709.
Quiberon, 1799.
Mandora, I KOI.
Egypt, 1801.
AU-xandria. ItSUI.
Cnpenhagtri, 1.SU7.
Peninsula, 1H08-14.
Corunna, 1809.

Flushing, 1809.
Fuintrsd'Onow. 1811.
ArTdyodosMolinos, 1811.
Abiiaraj, 1812.
Vittoria, 1813.
Maya, 1813.
Pyrenees, 1813.
Nive, 1818.
Ortlii-s, 1814.
Qualrc Bras, IHI.?.
Wiittrl'jo, 1815.
N.'thtrlands, 1815.
Smith Africa, l.sy5.
Indian Mutinv, 1^,17-8.
D.lhi, 1857.
Agra, 1857.
Cawnporc, 1857.
LiK'know, 1858.

Afgliaiiisliin, 1878-80.
Charasiah, 1879.
Kabul, 1879.
Kandaluir. 1880.
S'liith Afrii-a, 1881.
Egypt, 18H2-4.
'IVI-.l-Kcbir. 1882.
Nile. 1884-3.
El 'I\b, 1884.
Tainai, 1884.
Chitral, 1895.
Tindi, 1897-8.
South Africa, 1S99-1902.
Miigtrsfontcin, 1900.
Ca;sar's Camp, 1900.
\Vagi,^)n Hill, 1900.
Paardebcrg, 1900.
Thabanc'lui, 1900.

HOW THE ARGYLLS AND THE H.L.I. WENT DOWN ON

' THE BIRKENHEAD '
By G. L, Goff

On the 7th of January 1852, the iron paddle troopship Birkenhead, of 1100 tons
and 550 horse-power, commanded by Master Commander Hubert Salmond,
s.iilcd from the coast of Cork, bound fur the Cape of Good Hope, witli detacli-
ments I'roin tlic depots «f ten regiments, all under command of Lieui-cnant-Colone]
Seton, of the 74th Highlanders, Altogether tlicrc were on board about C31
persons, including a crew of 132, the rest being soldiers with their wives and
children. Of the soldiers, a delaehment under Captain Wright belonged to tlie
91st. Tlie Birkenhead made a fair passage out, and reached Simon's Hay, Cape
of Good Hope, on the 23rd of February, when Captain Sahuond was ordered to
proceed eastward immediately, and land the troops at Algoa Bay and Buffalo
River. The Birkenhead accordingly sailed again about six o'clock on the evening
of the 25th, the night be-ng almost perfectly calm, the sea smooth, and the stars
out. Men as usual were told off to keep a look-out, and a leadsman was stationed
on the paddle-box next the land, which was at a distance of about three miles on
the port side. Shortly before two o'clock on the morning of the 20tli, when all
who were not on duty were sleeping peacefully below, the leadsman got soundings
in twelve or thirteen fathoms. Ere he had time to get another cast of the lead,
the Birkenhead was suddenly and rudely arrested in her course : she had struck
on a sunken rock surrounded by deep water, and was firmly fixed upon its jagged
points. The water immediately rushed into the forepart of the ship, and drowned
many soldiers who were sleeping,' on the lower deck. . . .

Captain Salmond ... at once appeared on deck with the other naval and
military officers. The captain ordered the engine to be stopped, the small bower
anchor to be let go, the paddle-box boats to be got out, and the quarter-boats

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CAMPAIGNS IN INDIA, AFRICA, AND EGYPT U5

up his mind what it was tl c dut" of b L. , ' ,■",'/' "■"''™' '"■-i'''tion made

the eircumstances. Ho impress d u ,o„ t te XZ'- "h '"''"*" '" ''" "'"'"
'ng sdcnee and discipline among the men ll thf f '"i T"'''">' o'' l«»"v-
"P on both side, of the quarter dc"k the .n.nn ""'"v' "" '*"''"'" '<> <l™«

inspection. A party was told uffto «„ k c mn^'^"* "'.'/ "'""" '" '""'"R" ""
■■> lowering the boats, and another to throw M^'"' ,""''" '" "''"-^ ""^ ^oilors
one did as he was directed ■ si.',r„„t ,r . ''"'" '""''"■'' overboard. ' Everv
orders, and had them etriedrt a7, "he m:f I"'' "'%'"^'.' ' "" -"-ed th^ii
to the bottom ; there was only this diflerenee tl . ? '"'^""^'"S instead of goiiig
conducted with so little noise aild e™fusio„~ ""'' '"' "">' ^'''•"I'^tic.ll

^n« the water mil. i„ voS ^ tl! t : f ^^^^l— - ^ -;^ ^

drawn, seeing the women and children suMv „L^d^ ^".""r^' "'"' '"' ''"•'•■■''
captain had provided for them. Th"s dutv 'Z . T? '" ," "" '^""" «'"<-''■ ""^
was ordered to he off about a hunded and fi?fv''',''*'r '"''*''''■ "'«' "'= "■"^■■
ship In about ten minutes after she fir,?rue/:;''^'T "" '"'"'"^ ''"'''"S
mast, the mast and the funnel falling over t'n.f . '" '"" "' ""= 'o""
and throwing into the water those U,7 '"= ''"'l-oard side, crushing manv

boat , but the me.^ ke^t the ' p :c« °tZ°„h"''''''™"r'''F '" '"^" "'"= I'a<Mrbo^x
had been in the servic^ only a ^^^0^ "Zfd '".'""' *"•= "■"■= ''«'» »l><>
women and children had been put! onW two sn,„^lT„ f "" ™"" '"'" '"'"'••'■ "'<^
having been stove in by the fallingSerr^ h^ "'=".«°' °" "" "'» «'■">■
the ship had broken in two, she 1, ™n r ' ijjv to s'J^k 'r""^"'.^ ""'l''^'- "'-'
remair • on board clustered on to tl^^on It. 1 . n"''!""'' ""'' "■»« '>''0

le;.st -dcr. At last Capta™ Salmo^ Tc ein Ah f"'.!! '' """"^ "' '"""'"» «'<
advise all who could swiia to iunTn nv/1 "., ^'."""""8 '"'"•' "^""W be done.
Colonel Seton told the m n aX^thlV^'^'J^ T """"'iiT '^' ''™'^- ^ut
the boats and .end the women and chMrentrihe 7 »""''' .*"= '"" '" '»"■"?
them to keep their places, and ?hey obeveS Th. B-V°"?'' 5" "'"''"'^ '"''"^d
sinking. The office™ shoik hai^ds a^dTal I ^if ™*^'«' "a^ now rapidly
after which the ship again broke in troabathe """^ ?"r"- ^mediktely
wl. had bravely stuci to their pos^r^^LtlitSt^rt^^c rill^k^nrecirS

tnuZ-r'^m' trslldtrof^iL^hllsfXn ' "!"' ™ ""' " "^ -
shore, but few ever reached it • most of The^ » '' "T"? ^^'"'^ ""' f" ""=
were devoured by the sharks o were dashedToll'th"'°l'™' ^"''""^'i-. "'
Point Danger, or entangled in the deatWrfn of « l ° "'' '"^'^"^ '^°'^ "'"
floated thickly near the coast ' * ^ °' ""^ '™8 arms of sea««d that

wom"/nt chHd'was rost.'"""- '"^'^^ '""™=''- -"^ »« >«"« saved ; not a

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III

THE BLACK WATCH

By Dugald Dhu

Uiitlcii f..r \\':irirln(i Day, mVX

Hail, >;iillant rei^inicnt I Freiceadiin Dubh I

Whenever Albion needs tliiiie nid
' Ave ready ! ' fi»r whatever foe

Sliidl dure to meet the black brigade I
Witness disiistrous Fontenoy,

When all seemed lost, who brought us through ?
Who siived (lefeiit ? secured retreat ?

And bore the brunt ?— The Forty-Two I

So, at Corunna's grand retreat,

When, far outnumbered by the foe,
The patriot Moore made glorious halt.

Like setting sun in fiery glow :
Before us foamed the rolliTig sea,

Behind, the carrion eagles iiew ;
Hut Scothmd's ' Watch ' proved Gallia's match

And won the game by Forty-Two I

The last time Fmnce stood British fire.

The Watch gained glory at its cost,
At Quatre Brus and Hugomont

T'lree dreadful days they kept their post ;
Ten hundred there who formed in square

Before the close a handful grew ;
The little pr -lanx never flinehed

Till Boney ran from Waterloo I

The Forty-Second never dies,

It hath a regimental soul ;
Fond Scotia, weej)ing, filled the blanks

Which Quatre Bnis left in its roll.
At Alma, at Sevastaptxil,

At Lueknow waved its bonnets blue !
Its dark green tartan who but knows ?

What lieart but warms to Forty-Two ?

But wliile we glory in the corps,

We 'II mind their martial brethren too :
The Ninety-Second, Seventy-Ninth,

And Seventy-First— all Waterloo I
The Seventy-Second, Seventy-Fourth,

The Ninety-Tliird— all tried and true !
Tiie Seventy-Eighth, real ' men of Ross ' :

Come, count tlieir honours, Forty-Two I

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Kiilhl liclile ri-Kiiiicnls i.r the (jiici ii.

GikI (jrant they liint' support her eiuwn ;
Sliiiuldcr Ici slioulder, Iliclandiiuii,

Ufiitcii rivals in rciHAVti I
We 'll wre.itlie tlie rose witli licatli that blows

Wlierc barley -rijrs yield mountain dew.
And pledge the Celt, in trews or kilt,

Whenee Secilland lira Its her Forty-Two 1

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COLONEL M'LEOD AT KOOMASSEF
By Viscount Wolselcy

J;''',j 'l';";,,''™";" ").'"■'■•"''';« Il"-""8l. U.e n,asses of ll.e enemy that erowded the

" ' If ?^ i^- "J '""'• "■'"' """■■■ t'""""t "l^""-'. "■• umkr a better op

moredeter,n.ne,l ea.ler than Colonel .M'l.cod, were ever sen upon sueh a is'fo"
Ka.t s Runs raked the road with u heavv shell fire, whilst v, llev after v lev of
nu.sketry „,ust have .lain hnn.lreds, and tl„,s hel ,e,l to ope a p th f. t| „«
sp lendK H.shlanders. The onlers I p.ve Colonel 'jrLeo.l «^ e to r e^.r „^
flank attneks a, mueh a. possible, and to push forward strait-ht for Koomassee
forth fj"' \T'^'"ll^ '" "'I""' distinfTuishe.! Seottish Rentleman sally sudde.dy
r rth from the v.llaRc at the head of his Imtorie IliRhlanders, the.r pipes aying
tl e old warhke mus,e of Seotland, all ranks knowiuR full Well that eone what
nuRht they must sleep that night at Koomassee or die on the road to it. O an bus
cades many were encountered and eaeh taken with a rush ; for what were sueh
obstaeles to men bke tijose of the Blaek Wateh 1 They were for the first moment

but nothmg could stop them. The Ashantees seemed at last to realise this S
confusion.'.^'" '""' """' '"' " "'™^'" "» *'->■ "«' "' ■■" Jireeti^s ^wM
Just before I entered the city Sir A. Alison ha,l drawn up the troops on a
w,de open place u, the city where he received n,e w.th a genen I salute AU

ranks felt they had done a brilliant day's work, and for our veto y I ^m'sure
numy fervent thanks went up to God that night.

From Tlir Stnrit of it JoA/icj-V life

A COLOUR-SERGEANT OF THE SEAFORTHS
By D. C. Parry

T'o''hn'''A/''r'"''^' "^'f'u " ^'''■""''" ^''■"^' "»^ SMaMy won by Colour-Sergeant

I icut'enant Cn'ro"".';! r'^" '"",' 'i""" ?! °'"' ""^'^^ ^"'^'"'' ™''" "'= command of
!; unf ? .?fi , i'^",''"""'' •••^'JO'-Milkinson, who, moving towards Kekwai, en-
Officers a'n 1 ''"tn f """'l-V /.eld by the enemy, at Uo„,poassi. 0th June {Z.
terrd.K thinned^ fa;=t under the heavy fire, and when the force had been

himsc ■ l^t h„d 1 ,' T'' ^"^""'' '"'" '^'■"■""'^'>' »-<>""'l'J. Major Wilkinson,
a^r^nii ' ''"'"'r' ™ '■'■*"•'"«• ""^ »^n """i """ims being out of action

ammunition runnnjg short, and the enemy's fire as hot as ever • but, to q ote
&.r James Wdleoeks's dispatch, 'Colour-Sergeant Mackenzie came up to lirn

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and voluiitoiTcJ to carry the stockiult- willi the bayonet, if his own company (the
Yomlia Coinjiiiiiy, 1st \Vtst Arrican Frontier Force) was placed at his disitosut.
Wilkinson at once nniereti up the cornpiiny, which was in the rear of the colunui,
and on the arrival ol' tlie first two sietions, without hesitation Muckv'nzie chari:i d
at tticir head, followed splendidly by his t>wn men and all others in the vicinit\,
their otficers, of course, Icadinji them. The enemy did not wait the rush, but
fled in eonfusion, and never rallied, and it is perliiips not too much to suy a disaster
to our ;irms was thus averted, for a n-Hrt iiient uiidi-r the eireuinstauees nii;ilit
have endiil in panic. For this act of 4li>tiri^MUshcd bravery I eunsidiT Cult'ur-
Seryeant Miu-keiizte is di--LTvin<f of llic hijjlirst reward a soldier liiii nrcive, and
am lUiikin;^ a reconiiuiii i:ition aceurdin^ly.'

FiMiii Ik'- r.''.

HOW SIR GEORGE WPIITK WON HIS V.C.
By J. Cmnb

At Charasiuh the eneniy in immense stren^'th was first met, and the brave Gordon
Hij^hlunders had their share of stern combat. The ■ '"ghan tribesmen are liardy
mountaineers, trained from their infancy to hardy exercises and the arts of war.
They are brave to recklessness, stronj,' and athletic, and fou^jlit with a tenacity
and ferocity that prceluded .ill ideas of quarter being asked or given — fought till
their eyes glazed and tliel.' hands refused to lil't a knife or pull a trigger. In charge
of an improvised |>os.t as SLiiior ollieer |>resent was .Mnjor U. Stewart White, of the
92nd. Moving his men from under cover. White saw the hills to his right lined
with the enemy in many buttalions. Ht? directed the big guns to play upon the
hills, and then went forward with his kilted heroes. Up to this time the enemy
had st(»od firmly against the Britisli lire, and the Ilighlunders felt that to drive
him from his position would require an elfort of no light kind. Up they went
from one ste;p ledge to anotbir, clambering, toiling, but ever nearing the stubboi n
foe, and eiieouraged by the conduct of White, who went on with the leading files.
Suddenly the Highlanders found a large number of the enemy straight in thtir
front, outnumbering them by nearly twenty to one. White's men were utterly
exhausted by the climbing, and could hardly go forward, but that officer, seeing
that immediate action was necessary, took a man's riile from his hand, and ad-
vancing right towards the enemy, shot dead their leader. As the Afghans hesi-
tated in dismay at this daring act and its fatal result, the Highlanders raised a
loud shout and d;ished forward, ilriving the Afghans down the hill, and crowning
it themselves wi i a ringing cheer. For his cool, daring deed Major Stewart
White was awarded the V.C, which he hail most worthily won.

While the 92nd men were giving so good an account of themselves at one part
of the field, at another the gallant 72nd were leailin(» the van of a small force
operating under General Baker. The position Baker was storming was led uj> to
by rugged and precipitous paths, up which the men toiled painfully but lesolut. y.
When they had been engaged for a cou|)lc of hours witli doubtful success, the
fortunes of the day were turned in their favour by a co-oi)crative movement
of the 92nd, who, with pipes playing and colours flying, appeared rushing up the
hill on the enemy's flank, and drove i.im from his vantage ground. In vhe end,
after twelve hours' hard fighting, ti Afghans were driven from all their posts,
their guns were captured, and the battle of Charasiah was won, with a loss to the
British force that was comparatively trilling.

From The Iliijhiand Un>)ade.

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149

VII

AN APPEAL TO CTiSAR

liy Ian Madaren

Tiii.v liiid llic rij'ht 1„ ,)icii|iy their old l.onip till M.irtinTiuis, Imt .Tmn lin.l hruun
> Int. wundcrinK tliro.icli tlio empty ' lioiisi'S ' nnd l,r lin^ ever the eoM„„„ Irinl.

■nee "ill
sac

tne

ie nt

. .? '■'''"',"•, '"'I' '*• •'"''" = "'^' Alrnielily ninde n ivorniin .iiflennt lr„n, n man.

m ti,ere II I,,- n„e peaee l„r n.e till ,v,. I„ t „' Durnl.rm-. Ma «ark I.ere 'J

Uenished. nn it s no hk. Iianie ..iiy niair. A' .v,.|, the flittn,' were „«er „• you
an me were sell I, d whar «c 'll .rid ii.ir days '

Mnrnl.rae had lound n lilll,- ,,1.,.,. ..n.r Kilu,„n,mie that would leave him
w ,1 hm reaeh ol I,,, k„ k. « l,„l, !„■ ha,l loved nt n ^real eest. n„d his old m i,dd,ours
lo whom he was knit witli new lies.

'The NVonI ean eome onywlarc tae the hert, nn' the nngel o' His I'resv.,,,
ny,. he wi ns, Jean, l,„t there 's nae plaee whar the Kvnngel 'ill ev,r soond
hweet ns in tlie Free Kirk o' l)Munl..elity.

T. •„",'' '" "'"'"I "'' "' '■'"- "■' "'■ '■■'■ "'■''• ""■' "■•■ "'"■ fl"'!"!" ninee n week.
J J ill dne lis ijiide, wninnian, tne ct n hniMKhak line Nelherlon nn.l Donald
Menzies, ni, I,ael, an liinisel', tho„trh he he a slifl ehiel. Forhve the Auld Kirk
l"h<, lor n dinna deny, .lean. aill.T a' Ihat 's happened, that it 'ill he ol, „v,„it tne
miet them eominjr wast, wi' l)riini-lieiij;h nl their hen.l. Ma he't's w
B hody m I he Ideii, and a' ken they 'II no' loi,;et us, .l.an, in oor hit li
Kndrummie.

One Thursday nllernonn-the nitling was to he on Mondnv— Ilumhrne eame
upon Jean ni the garden, dij..f;ins up plants and ,.aefcinR them i, nderlv with wide
ni:.r(rins (tf their native enrUi.

' A_cndna leave them John, nn' Hay 'II mak oor new pnird.n mnir linme-
hke. The pinks are enllm s n set n,a~er, au' I he fii, hsias tne, nn' Jennnie earried
the enn and watered them tlinl simmer nloii tie dei'd. When I'eter Hohertson
WTs wiirnin us no' tae meddle wi' ony lixture lor f<ar o' the faelor, n' nskit him

r .""... -.1' '?' ""' '"■ ""'''• " '■'" "' ''"' l''-""'f 'I'"" "'"■-el', they niielit be

hi led. Glide kens n' did, ev, ry nne, thoii;rli it 's no' nioiiv we enn tnk. But

preserve s, wlin s yon t '

It was not nee.iliil to nsk, for indi-ed <inlv one man in the parish eoiild walk

with si: I, grave nnd stately di^.nil>-, nnd thnl heenusc his father nnd .-rnnd lather

na'( lieeit naiish ministers hel'ore him.

■This is rael neehiirly, doetor. nn' like vers, I' tae eome np nfore we left the

aul, plaee \e'ie weleome nt liuriihrae ns yir father wes in ma father's day.

1 e heard that we re llillin' on Monday ? '

' You 're not nwny yet. Diirnhrae, 'ynu 're not nwny vet ; it 's not so easv to
turn out n nnimtoehty man as our Kurdish laetor thought: we're a slilT fo"
nnd our roots grip fast. He was to rule this parish, nnd he was to do ns he rileased
wit 1 honest men ; we 'II sir who eomes off l.est hrfore the dnv is done,' nnd the
doetor stniek his stiek, the stiek of olliee with the p.Iden land, on the prnvel in
triumph. • -i ou vc just eome in time, Mrs. Hnxtir '-for Jean had heen pnttinff
hirsell in order— for I want to pive ycai a hit of ndviee. Do not lift niiv ninri
ol your p ants— It's bad for their growth ; and I rather think you '11 have to
pat them baek.

Jean came close to Hiirnhrae's side, and wntelicd tlic c^oetor without hrcath-
ms while he placed the stiek against a bush, nnd put on his evc-glasses with
deliberation, and opened out a telegram and rend aloud :— ' Paris.— Your letter

ISO

SCOTLAND FOR LVIiR

fouiul mr ut Inst ; k'uvc Lnii<)oii for lioiiu- Tliiirstliiy luomiii;,' ; tell Uurnbrac to
meet lae in Muirtuwii on Fritluy. — Kii.tPiNUiE.*

' My letter wfiit to Kj^ypt uiul niisst-il him, hut hotter iute thon never, Burii-
hrue. . . , Thut 's u won lert'ul plant you have there, Mrs, ]t;ixter,' urid he tunieit
aside to stutly u hydrati^eu Jeiin had set out in the .sun ; Tor witli all liis pouipt^ms
and autoerulic ways, the doctor was a tjentlenum uC the old sehoitl,

\VI n he departed and Jean hail .settled down, llumhiae thought it wise to
modei'aie her joy lest it should end in liitter disa|>p«>intnient.

' TliL' doctor lies dune hi:i pairt, and it vves kind o' him tae eonu' up hinisel' tae
tell us. Ye didna see Ids luce uil'ter lie read the niessuye, i)ut it wis wi)rlh seein'.
There 's no' a Mionder hurt in the Ulen. A' kent this tiling wudnu hae huiipemd
gin his Ltirdslii|> lied heen at Imnie, uti' a 'in thinkin' he wud due his best lae
repair it. Maybe lie 'II f^lc 's the (irst ehuncc o' a vacant lairm, hut a' doot \:c
Uiuur; leave Uuri.'>rae ; they say 'at it 's us gud: as let tae a Nellieraird man.'

' Dinna s:iy that, John, I'or it 's no' aiiitho *''<iriu, it '^ liurnhrae a' want,
A 'II be walihin' the niornia's evening when ye eoinc up the mad, an' u '11 see ye
turnin* the eorn^T. Ve *ll wave yir airni tae me <{in a' be richt, an' Jeannie's
Qoo'rrs 'ill be Imek !'i their beds 'il'ore ye be hame,'

When '*urnbrae appeared Ht liiKlnuiunie station next morning, Drunilochly,
who happened to be tli' le in I'oree on their last 'I.iirtown visit bdnre harvest,
c mpossed him with obscrv.mees, putting liini in the corner seat, and emphasising
his territorial {Usi;iiiation.

' Thut wes mielity news aliout the s'Tgesnt, Hiirnljnie,' luirari Jamie Soutar ;
* it spiled u nieht's sleep tae me readin' liuo .le stude ower the colonel and kee)iiL
the Afghan:) at bay till the regiment rallied. Wes 't four or sax he foeht single-
handed ? '

' lie barely mentioned the niaitler in Iiis letters, but his eajitain wrote tUi. the
gudewife, wliie.i wes ra'.'t thoehtfu' ; he made it sax, an' he said the regiment wes
prood o' Sandii'.' For un instant Burnhrae drew himself up in his corner, and
then he added, * lint it 's no' for iiis father tae be speakin' this wy. Sandic did
naeth-ng but hi- duty.'

'For doonneht leeir.',* said Jamie meditatively, 'a' never kent the marra
(equui '■' ti.ae London papers ; they made oot that Sandie wes a hero, and we
cleam d ilic Muirtown book-stall lest Friday a week. A' never saw the Kildrumniie
train in sic spcerits ; it 's uwfu' lioo country I'ouk are deceived,"

' Pigpie Walker cam up on Monday ' (Uilloeks seemed to be addressing some
person above IJiirnbrae's head), ' and he wes tellin' nie they hed a by-ordimir'
«ermon i'lae the student. " A' wished U\irnbrue hcd been there," Piggie said ;
" he wes boond tae be lifted. He 'II sune hae a kirk, yon lad, an' a qude anc."
Piggie 's a body, but he 's coonted the best jidge o' scrniop . in Kildrummie.*

Drumsheugh alone did not join in those kindly eff' nts, b it struck out a manner
of his own, chuckling twice withuiit relevancy, and onct growing so red that
Hillocks ran over his family history to estin^ute the risk of s\ ' seizure,'

* Is that you, Uurnbrae ? Come in, man ; come in. It 's a pleasure to sec
a Drumtochty face 'gain after those foreign fellows,' and Lord Kilspindie gripped
his tenant's hand in the factor's olfice. ' Sit down and give me all your news.
There will be no speaking to Mrs. Baxter now after tliis exploit of the ser-
geant's ! When I read it on my way home I was as proud as if he had been niy
own son. It was a gallant deed, and well deserves llie Cross, He 'II be getting
his commission some day. Lieutenant Baxter I That will stir the Glen, ch ?
But what is this I hear of your leaving Burnbrae ? 1 don't like losijig old
tenants, and I thon";ht vou wrndd be Hie last to Hit.'

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' DiH the factor not tell y\m, my l,uril — '

' I 'vc only M-en him fur live iiunult>, tid he Miid it had nothing to do witli
rent ; it wan some religions notion or other. Is thiit so t '

'The fuinn is worth thirty pund miiir rent, nn' u' uml hac puid wixty ruthc
than leuve my uuld hunie; but Ihi- l'iu-ti,r ., .U- it ii h dcclinn tac yit- up nm kiik.

'Well, Bun^bme, I never th.'UKlit you would Knvc I. It iri<- for u nmtUr .,(
kirks. Could you n()t luive stretched ii pouil foruuld Uwn syne t ' and i;il<piiidic
looked hard at the old num.

' Mtt Lonl, there 's naething u' wudn.i hac dune to stay in IJundmie but this
ftC thing. Ye hue been a (fudc lantllonl tae mc, i\s the auld Karl v,vs tae ni;i
father, ur' it 'ill never be the wunc tiic nicujjain on i.nitlu'rcstalc ; but yc inaiiiiTi.i
ask me ta guug burk on ma c«)i) science.'

The tea-s came to Burnbrue's eys, and lie rose tn his fiet.

' A' thocht,' he said, ' when yir nicssnjje cam, that maybe yc heil unithcr niital
than yir factor, and wud semi me bark tae Jean \m' i-iide Iicws in ma vu»,V .
Gin it be yir wull that wc Hit, a 'II mnk nar miur enmplfitiit, an' there's
nae bitterness in ma hert. Duta'wud like ye lac kin Ihal it 'ill be a sair pairtin'.
For twa hundred years an' nniir there's been a llaxtir iit IJurnbrac atat a
Hay at Kilspindic ; ane wes juist a vv.>rkiti' farmer, an' tlie itlur u beltwi earl.
but (fude freends an' faithfu' j nn', ma Lord, Uurnbrae wes as dear lac oor i'ouK
as the cuiitlo wes tae yours. A' mind fiat lUy the Vi-,e<ani* earn o' nuc an' we
gnithered tue wush him weel, that u' ; iw the pictures ,' tlie anid Hays on yir
walls, an' thocht hoo niony were Ihc ties that buiul \c t!ir yir hamc. VVe haena
pictures mtr gv ,den treasures, but there 's an anid* eha>r "at i>or tircside, an* u'
saw nirt grancifather in it when a' wes a Iiahlie at the sehnlc, an' a' miral him
tellin' me that his grandfr.ther bed sat in it li. n,' iifure. It 'h no' worth muckle,
an' it's been often mended, but, a, 'II no' like 'ai see il carried o<.t frae Il.irnbrae.
There is a Bible, tae, that hcs ?ome doon, father tae son, frae liiW), and ilku
Baxter hes written his name in it, an' " farmer at Biirnbrae." but it 'ill no' be
dune again, for oor race 'ill be awn frae Burnbrae fui ever. Be patiii ' wT mc,
ma Lord, for it *s the lest time we 're like tae meet, an' there \ anitln <- thing a'
want tae say, for it 's heavy on nia hert. When the factor told me w ilun this
verra room that we maun leave, he spoke o' i-ie as if a' betllx-en a law .'■ss nmn,
an' it cut me mair than ony ithcr word. Ma L(.rd, it s no' the mm th ' ftmr
their God that 'ill brak '■he laws, an' a' ken nae Baxter that wes ither than -■'
loyal man tae his king and country. Ma mule ehairgcd wi' the Scots t_.rpvs at
Waterloo, and a' mind him telHn', when a' wes u wee laddie, hoo the Iliel^^.ders
cried oot, "Scotland for ever," as they passed. A* lurdna tell ye aboot \u,i
brither, for he wes killed vy yir side afore Sebastn[n.l, and the letter ye sent tae
Burnbrae is keepit in that Bible for a heritage. A 'II mention naethiig either -
ir.. ain laddie, for ye 've said mair than wud be riclit for me, but we c*-.<>iit it hart'
thatwhtn oor laddie hes shed his bhale like an honest man for his Qu-?cn, hi
a'dd fatluT and mither sud be driven frae the haine llicir fnrbear-. lied for seevtt,
generations.*

Lord Kilspindie rose to his feet at the mention of Sebaslopol, and now went
jver to the window as one who wished to hitle his laec.

* Dinna be angry with me, ma Lord, n<jr think a 'ni boastin', but a' cuthia
thole that ye sud think me a lawbreaker, w ha cared nuitlier for kirk nor common-
weal ' ; and still his lordship did not move.

* It gaes tae ma hert that we sud pcirt in onger, on' if a 've said mair than a'
c'ich*, it ves in soirow, for a 'II never forget hoo lang ma fouk hac lived on yir
la, i, ai.d hoo gude ye hne been tae mc,' and Burnbnte turned to the door.

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* V..I1 "iv the iliillust limn in all DniniUH-hty,' crlci KiKi)i:nlic', wheeling round
—(one niij-lit Imvc lumutl . . . Lut tlu.c is iih.nitl)-' juni the tniest. Diii
y.Hi think tlmtu Hiiy wnuM Itt « Uaxtir «.) for nil tho kirlts that ever wore built ?
Vi)U supiM.std that I wimtcti ynii to pi.iy the knave lor your farm, and thi§ was
the news yoii wore to carry home I.. .Kan ? It 'h too hail of yon, Uurnhrac.'

* Ma Lonl, u' . , . ye ken *

' It 'j* all ritiltt, and I 'm only ji.kiii^ ; and the play was carricti on a bit ton
lonR for h-ilh nl' us, but I wanU-d to htar your own mind upon thin matter.' and
Kilspindie cntlcd tor the furtor.

' 1« the Ihirrilirae lease drawn np ? '

' It is, lit an a<lvanfc of sixty |i.junds, and I 've (jot a nmn who will sign :t,
and says he will ^ive no trouljlt ali,..jt kirks; in fact, he 'II just do . . . ah . . .
well, whatever we tt-ll liiiri.'

•Quit*.' so; nii.^t sati>fact..ry sort of man. Then you'll reduce the rent to
the old ftj^urc, and put in the name of John Uaxtcr, und let it be for the longest
p^TicMl we ever jjivc on the tslatc'

' Hut, Lord KiKpiiidic . . . I . . . did you know *

' Do as I cnniniaiid you without another word,' and his Lordship was fearful
to behold. ' Unun tht lei.so liele in ten tiiirmles, find pl.ire it in Mr. Itaxter's
hands. What I 've j^ot to say to you will keep till Hltcrwanls.

* Sit down, old friend, sit down ... it was my blame. ... I oujjht to be
horsc-whipped. . . . Drink a little water. Vou 're better now ? ... I 'II go
and see that fellow has no trieks in tlie c«jnditions.' Dul he heard Itunibrae say
one word to hitnself, nnd it was * Jean.*

'There arc mony tliinys a' wud like tac say, ma Lord.' said Ui;r?ibrac before
he left, * but a full liert lUMk'i n:w wnrds. Gin liftinx a dark clond aff (he life o*
a family an' filliu' twa nuld fouk wi* j<'y 'ill ^ie ony nmn peace, ye 'II .slecj> soond
this nicht in yir eislic. Wh-cn ye p^isv liclow Burnlirae on yir way to the Lod^e
and sec the smoke curlin' np through tiie trees, ye 'II ken a family 'a hvin' there
that bless yir name, und will mention it in their prayers.'

The first man Jiurnbrae met when he came out with the Icai^" in his pocket
wa-j Dnimsheuj;h, whose business that particular day had kept him wandering
up and down the street for nearly an hour.

* Kerp 's a', Biinibrap. is tlmt you ? a' thocht ye were dune wi' that oflitC
noo. It 's a pair market the diiy ; the dealers are ^^ettiii' the fut cattle for iiae-
thing.' Hut Drumslieugh's manner had lost its calm finish.

'A 'ye something tac tell,' said liurnbrae, 'an* yc sud be the first lae hear it.
Lord Kilspindie 'shame a^'ain, nnd lies settled mc and mine in thcanid place for a
tack that 'ill luist nm days and deseend tae ma son uiflcr mc. This lies been a
shairp trial, antl there were times a' wes feared ma faith micht fail ; but it '» ower
noo, and there's twa men .Jean an* me 'ill remember wi' gr;i tit iide till we dee; ane
is Doctor D.ividvm aii' (lie ither is ycrsel'. Ye hncht ns through atween ye.'

'Come awa this mccnut tae the "Kilspimiie Airms," ' nnd Drumslieugh
seized Buriibrae. * A' ken ye wunna taste, but a 'II dae it for ye ; and yc 'II eat,
at ony rali^,' and Dr uusheugh, who was sufiposed to dine in secret places at not
ni'.re than a shillin :. ordered a dinner fit for Lord Kilspindie. He did his best
to get full value 1 r his money, but before and after, and between the courses,
he let himself go at large.

* Ane-atid-twenty year nt a hundred and auehty pund I man, ye *]1 have
cneuch tae stock a fairm for Jamie and furnish the student's manse I His Lord-
sliip wes lang o' comin' hame, but, ma certes, he 's pit things richt when he did
come, -t 's naething '.hort o' handsome, an' worthy o' the Earl.

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' Ml- 1 * rcsiimi-tl Driinishi'iiKli, * u' licti luiilliinj.' tm- lUit- «i'l it wcs ihc
d'K'tot's letter 'tit tiid the business; Iicre's tJie his lu-nltli. vir Mn!ii-vfitcr

cliirie yet? The liic-l.T trif<( lae rniik lichl n' him (lint (iny, ' sp:ik iis If he
wes Hh'ine nMnnly in Dniiiil. . iily. II<' IliitaUiir.l the minister tjir hi. U<< ; a'
ht;ini hirn. the upsetlin', ill-iniuihrri-d urattli. " Dinnn he ejist diKm," s;ij,i the
(loetnr 1 rnc iM)lsiile; "ye hevna seen the end n' tliin Kfime." Tlic nmn
hve 'lit Clin beiit the dnetnr nhtii his l.irse is up, im' a' never sjiw him wie
I'osc'd iilnre.

'Whiir's the fuetor lunt ? ' hursl out Dnifushenc'i nfresh. 'Man, n* wiid
h •■ hked tac see him when he hmcht in the lease. " J wes hire hefnre ye, and
i :II he here nil'ter \ c," sail! the .L.tinr. * II et.nie tme; a' jfii- Hie liirlnr "
h illi, ni>' amtltcr we. k. It '.s wn .h drir hue, hut iliim,! spare il. This ,

iiii' an urdiriitr' day. A' wish we mitc at ■ .1 ndit.ti,'

Dniin^heii^'li restrained himscir till tlu ..Hikitji train hml r,ii!v ^'..ne— fnr
he k?uw hrtl.T than to ant ieijr,!.; i,n tteeasiuii— and then he t'-' hired I)ni:a-
toehl y ripiiiid him.

* S'eh.-ar.l I hat tlie fieh r <.n!,.r d lliinihn.o tae leave his kirk >• "I. it 'ill he
fl V hjlf or lie meddle wi' luiitlier man; an' Ihinihrae \us tiie he tmii'cl not »'
hi, I'airm— it \ the I'aetnr, a 'm jial^'in', an' n<i' niirnhr.ic, 'at "ill need lae seek n
I file; an' the fiuN •■ wmltiii die u Ita^e fur lil'teeii year-he's hed tae mak jt
i'"i f.T iinc-atid-twenty ; an' he wuilna tak a raek-nnt n' siixl\ pii:Ht increase
t.H' let Hurnhrae bide in liis hunse. v.n* his I,nnlship 'ill no' lak a ['n-niiy mnirthan
Die ■ lid rent. That 's ma news, I'.iik, an' it 's Ihe hc^t a 've heard i'lir monv u

.!s with IJiirnhrae, In. in \, thertf.n tf> I'ctcf Hmce,
Jler I'riiifie of Kildnimmie tn rejuiee with them ; hut

?n they all shn,.k Ii .
a: i: then they eatlcil in an i
Hurnhra'' eouM uuly say —

' Thank ye, frecnds. frac ma hcrl ; ye 'vcheen t/iah nrcburs tac me and mine'
' ' ' vielory,' >;iid Jamie Si'iitar, ' hut a' can see drawl)aekv.'

' It 's been a mieh
'Ay. ay ?' wliic!
' Naelmdy 'ill he t
space of a j,'cnera,.

■- a i'-v.u t[ iiiiiuirv with
tac t.i! a l.^e or j.lay a

IIiIIm<
.(m

Iriek in DriUidt^Iity for

Simla, I assumed corn-
There was no rct'irn tn show the
iiul the tninps at Kandahar
1,000 native Soldiers,

VTII

FIGHTIiNG AT KANDAHAR

By Lord Roberts

Xui: 1st SepU'inher. in accnrdanee with ia-striiclinns fn

niand f)f the army in soiithem Ai'fihanislan.

siveiijjth or etimpusiiinn nf tJcneral I'liaxic's ci

v'A h.ld jiiAvann)unled in ruund numl.or^ ti)38()0 Urifi .h and

uilh 3K j.Min,s.

An hour before daybreak the wlmlc of the troops were under onus, and at
li A.M. I explained to Clenerals Prinirose and K' -is and the i llieers commanding
brii.;adrs the plan of openilioiis. Hnetly. il was to threaten the enemy's left (the
li:.')U Wali Kutal) ami to attack in ft.ree by the villiipe of I'ir raimal. . . .

The vilhtue was carried with the utiiios't gallantry, llijThhuiders and Gurkhas
jiUvays friendly rivals in the race for pUry, by turns ontst. ipping eaeli other in
tlicir cHorts to be first witliin its walls. Tlic eiicmy .sullenly i d slowly withdrew,
u (s'oodly number of ghost's remaining to the ver>' last to receive a bayonet charge
of the 92nd. . . .

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In the 2nd Brigade the 72nd Highlanders and the 2nd Sikhs bore the bnint
of the fighting ; they were the leading battalion, and frequently had to fix bayonets
to carry different positions or to check the desperate rushes of the Afghans.

After continued and severe fighting both leading brigades emerged at the
point of the hill close to Pir Paimal, and, wheeling to their right, they piessed
rapidly on, sweeping the enemy through the thickly wood^ gardens which
covered the western slopes, until noon, when f^he whole of Pir Paimal was in our
possession. . . .

Having become assured of General Ross's complete success, and seeing that
there was nuw no necessity for detaining Macgregor's (the 8rd) brigade to meet a
counter-attack, we pushed on with it to join Ross, who, however, knowing how
thoroughly he could depend upon his troops, without waiting to be reinforced,
followed up the retreating foe, until he reached an entrenched position at the other
side of the Baba Wali Kotal, where .he Afghans made another most determined
stand. Ghazia in large numbers fluckevi to this spot from tlie rear, while the guns
on the kotal were turned round and brought to bear on our men, already exposed
to a heavy artillery fire from behind the entrenched camp.

It now became necessary to take this position by storm, and recognising the
fact with true soldierly instinct. Major White, who was leading the advanced
companies of the 92nd, called upon the men for just one charge more ' to close the
business.* Tlie battery of screw guns had been shelling the position, and, under
cover of its fire and supported by a portion of the 2nd Gurkhas and 28rd Pioneers,
the Highlanders, responding with alacrity to their leader's call, dashed forward
and drove the enemy from their entrenchments at the ji rit of the bayonet.

Major White was the first to reach '.he guns, being closely followed by Sepoy
Inderbri Lama, who, placing his rifie upon one of them, exclaimed, ' Captured in
the name of the 2n.i ^Prince of Wales' Own) Gurkhas I ' . . .

The enemy was now absolutely routed.

I'rom i'orty-one Years in India.
IX

TAKHT-I-SHAH

By Lord Roberts

The first thing now to be done was to endeavour to drive the Afghans from
the crest of the Takht-i-Shah. ... It was a most formidable position to attack.
The slopes leading up to it were covered with huge masses of jagged rock, inter-
sected by perpend'cular cliffs, and its natural great strength was increased by
breastworks, and stockades thrown up at different points. . . .

Large bodies of the enemy were moving up the slope of the ridge from the
villages near Beni Hissar. To check this movement and prevent the already very
difficult Afi^Iian position being still further strengthened, Major White, who was
in command of the leading portion of the attacking party, turned and made for
the nearest point on the ridge. It was now a race between the Highlanders and
the Afghans as to who should gain the crest of the ridge first. The artillery came
into action at a range of twelve hundred yards, and under cover of their fire the
92nd, lupportcd by the Guides, rushed up the steep slopes. They were met by a
furious onslaught, and a desperate conflict took place. The leading officer,
Lieutenant Forbes, a lad of great promise, was killed, and Colour-Sergeant
Drummond fell by his side. For a moment even the brave Highlanders were
staggered by tlie numbers and fury of their antagonists, but only for a moment.
Lieutenant Dick Cunynghame sprang forward to cheer them on, and confidence

CAMPAIGNS IN INDIA, AFRICA, AND EGYPT 1S5

was restored With a wild shout the Highlanders threw themselves on the
Afghans, and quieliiy succeeded in driving them down tlie further side of the
ndge.

From t'oH'j'tiiie i'l'iirv ift hitlia.

TEL-EL- KEBIR
Byy.CronA

On tlie niglit of the 12th of September the British army was five miles distant
from Tel-el-Kebrr. Then Sir Garnet Wolseley gave the crucial order. The arniv
was at 1 A.M. to march in the darkness of the night right up to the trenches of
the enemy without firmg a shot, then carry them by storm the moment they were
reached. ... '

tt '"'u' British bugles rang out, and with lusty cheers the HiglJanders broke into
the charge. Without a moment's pause or hesitation,' writes General Hamlev,
the ranks sprang forward in steady array. Their distance from the blazing line
of entrenchment was judged to be about a hundred and fifty yards. On tluit
interval nearly two hundred men went down, the 74th on the left losing five
officers and sixty men before it got to the ditch. This obstacle was six feet wide
and four deep, and leyond was a parapet of four feet high."

' On "'« "Slit of the Brigade,' continues Alison, ' the advance of the Black
VVatch was arrested, in order to detach some companies against a strong redoubt,
the artillery from which was now in the breaking light playing heavily on General
Graham's brigade and our own advancing guns. So earnest were the Egyptian
gunnera here that they were actually bayoneted after the redoubt had been
entered from the rear whilst still working their pieces. Thus it came about that,
from both the flank battalions of the brigade being delayed, the charge straight
to their front of the Gordon and Cameron Highlanders in the centre caused these
to become the apex of a wedge thrust into the enemy's line. The advance of these
battalions was stoutly opposed by the Egyptians of the Jst or Guard regiment,
who tell back sullenly before them, and our men also suffered heavily from a severe
flank fire from an inner line of works. Here one of those cheeks occurred to
which troops are always liable in a stiff flght, and a small portion of our line,
reeling beneath the flank Are, for a moment fell back. It was then a goodly siclit
to see how nobly Sir Edward Hamley, my division leader, threw himself amongst
the men and .-midst a very storm of shot led them back to the front. Here, too,
I must do justice to the Egyptian soldiers. I never saw men fight more steadilv
Retiring up a line of works which we had taken in flank, they rallied at every
re-entering angle, at every battery, at every redoubt, and renewed the light,
iour or five times we had to close upon them with the bayonet, and I saw these
men fighting hard when their oflicers were flying. At this time it was a noble
sight to see the Gordon and Cameron Highlanders, now mingled together in
the confusion of the fight, their young oflicers leading with waving swords, thrir
pipes screaming, and that proud smile on the lips and that bright gleam in the
eyes of the men which you see only in the hour of successful battle. At length
the summit of the gentle slope we were ascending was reached, and we looked
down upon the camp of Arab! lying defenceless before us."

With the characteristic modesty of a true soldier, General Alison notices the
heroism of another, but takes no thought of his own. While he dwells with
pleasure on the ' goodly sight ' of General Hamley leading the men to the front
m the thick of the fight, it is left to General Ilamlcv to tell how his Brigadier

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behaved, and how in the front line, along with the colonel of llic "lllh, was Sir
Archibald Alison on foot. Brave leaders these of brave men — fit soldiers to lead
to victory the Highland Brigade I

The performances of the Seaforthlliglibmlcrsl-andjiittachod to General Herbert
Mncpherson's Brigade have not fallen within the scope of onr narrative of the
Work of the Highland Brigade. Yet the 72nd did good work in the campaign.
They were the hardened heroes who had done the march from Cabal to Candahar,
and had little more than landed from the East when two hundred of them advanced
and engaged the enemy at Chalouffe. Their dash anil coolness carried the day ;
the place was captured, the enemy was routed, leaving over a hundretl dead and
wounded, and the waters of the Sweet Water Canal were allowed to flow. The
rc^nment continued its advance with the Indian coi;tingent, performing its full
sh ire of the hard toil and harassing duties. In the final dash on the enemy at
T<l-el-Kcbir it charged with all the fiery enthusiasm which had marked" the
conduct of the ' Albany's ' at the Peiwar Kotal, Cabul and Candahar, and, ably
leil by Macpherson, was soon swiftly following the fleeing rebels.

From Thp llliihtiml llnfii'le.

THE BLACK WATCH AT TAMAI

'i !ir. hiiltif ul' XiiniJii . , . jirovod one (.1" tlic niu^t tryiii*,' enfiarrtinciits in which
n Uritish force liud ever eiiHiiKC*!. On the morning of the 13th of March, 1884,
tlie British troops marclicd out from Buker's zarebu in double square, the Second
Jlrigiide, under General Davie, beinp eoinposcd of the 42nd Hii^liliinders and
tijth regiment, guns beinj; in front itnd tlie Marines in the rear. This square
ndvanced firinjj against the enemy who were evidently in strong force in front,
and occupying,' ground well suited' to itirnnl cover and" concealment. At length
the crowd of Arabs in front thickened, and they began to rush upon the square,
tlie right fliink of which was skirted by a deep nullah. The 42nd first half-
baltalion were ordered to char^'e, and as thry did so straight ahead, and met
w!;ere the enemy was strongest, a wild ycMiiig suddenly arose from the nullah
on the right, and hordes of Arabs were seen suddenly springing up from their
cc ucealment, and rushing furiously against the flank, now unfortuniitely opened
by the charging movement in front. On crowtled the Arabs, and the tiank and
front opened a furiou.s fire to cheek their wikl advance, lint it was futile. Sud-
denly a confused roar rose above the din of eoiifhct, and it took but a glance
from onlookers to see that something was sadly wrong. The wild Hndeudowas
had reached the square, and were forcing it back. The open gap in the forma-
tion had been discovered by the enemy, and llicy liad got inside, slnshiug and
Bitearing with all their fury. The fighting grew des[)erate. British officers and
men saw the disaster tliat was facing them, and strove their utmost to retrieve
the day. But the blue-jackets, driven back, lost their guns, and the front and
right flar.k of the square were beginning to press on the rear ranks. Inside, every
m.mof whatever rank and profession joined in the fight. There was no stampede,
no rout. The 65th and the Highlanders were falling back, but they were fighting
every inch of the way, and every man conquered or died with his face to his
s:-vftge foe. A correspondent, who had been in Baker's ill-fated square at
KI Teb, thought he saw the same picture again presented to his eye, but he recog-
nised the difference. Instead of faltering, cringing Egyptians fleeing before the
naked howHng Arabs, here were vaUant British soldiers, fighting for honour and

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country bearing themselves proudly in the dire conflict ; and with passions
thorouRlily n.uscd and the battle fervour bounding in their veins, they buHeted
with flst and foot, and struck with butt and steel the desperate fanatics
who crawled and dodged, leaped and yelled, and slashed in and around the
square. . . ,

At length the grand example of our ofllcers and the heroic determination of
the men checked the fearful o.,slauKht. The tide of the movement turned.
Shoulder to shoulder the 42nd and U«th stood fu-iu, then advanced against the
enemy slowly at fu-st, then quickly as they felt the triumph of conquest rekindle
within their breasts. Then their wild cheers rose on the air above the roar of
musketry ; the crisis had passed, the HadencloWiis wire bcaldi.

i-'rom J. Cromlt'a 7/it lliyliiund llrijjude.

Peitate Thomas Edwards, of the 42nd Hoyal Highlanders, was on transport
duty at the battle of Taniai, in charge of two mules loaded with Catling amniUMi-
tion for the left half battery ; and when at No. 1 gun, with Lieutenant Alinack
and a bluejacket, the ' Fuzzy Wuzzies' made a rush and surrounded them

VVeanng the well-known kilt of the brave ' Black Watch ' witli their familiar
red hackle in his felt helmet, he saw the sailor fall under his gun with a spear in
his stomach, and at the same time the Bcrce Soudanese came at him, and were
promptly spitted on his bayonet.

Lieutenant Almack, sword and revolver in hand, charged another sava"e
and ran hini through, but ere he could disengage, a tremendous cut nearly severed
his right arm, and he reeled up against the guns.

Edwards loaded and shot the Soudanese, but before he could interpose to
save hiin three more leaped upon the helpless naval oflicer and speared him,
his revolver dangling empty from the lanyard that fastened it to his wrist.

Edwards received a wound on tlie back of his right hand when lunging at a
native ; but one man against a score could do little, and seeing that Mr. Almack"s
case was hopeless, he retired with his mules, loading and flruig repeatedly on the
enemy to keep them back.

_ He did what he could, and was fortunate in being able to save the amniuni-
hon, owing his life entirely to a cool head and flne nerve, as never in any war had
British troops a more desperate and fearless cncniv to contend with than in the
pnrched-up, thirsty, horrible Soudan.

riuiii 1). f. Farry'ti The I'.C.

XII

KHARTOUM

By C. G. D. Roberts

Set in the fierce red desert for a sword.
Drawn and deep driven implacably 1 The tide
Of scorching sand that chafes thy landward side
Stormjng thy palms ; and past thy front out-poured
The Nile's vast dread and wonder I Late there roared
(Uliile far off paused the long war, long definl)
Mad tumult thro' thy streets ; and Gordon died.
Slaughtered amid the yelling rebel horde 1
Yet spite of shame and wrathful tears, Khartoum,
We owe thee certain thanks, for thou hast shown
How still the one a thousand crowds outweighs—

158 SCOTLAND FOR EVER

Still one man's mood sways millions — one man's doom
Smites nations — and our burning spirits own
Not sordid these nor unheruic davs I

THS KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS AT CHITRAL
By J. Cromb

While the Sikhs were toiling manfully up the slopes, the Gordons, along with
thL Scottish Borderers, worked up the centre of the pass. The order for the main
assault was given, and the (Jordons, branching off to the ri^ht, began the ascent.
Slowly but surely tlay made their way up the tortuous ar:d steep hillsides. The
Pathan contested every stip and many a gallant Gordon bit the dust before the
crest was reached. Bullets splashed the mud on every side of them, but the
Highlanders stuck manfully to their task, only stoppmg now and then to haul
each other up a more than usually precipitous part of the hill. The first to
reach the top of the ridge was Lieutenant Watt of the Gordons. He was set
upon by half a dozen Pathans. Two of them went down under his revolver ;
and then as his men had not yet reached the last ridge he jumped down until a
fuller rush could be made. Lieutenant Watt had his shoulder-strap carried away
by a bullci, which first ptissed through the brain of a corporal.

A foothold was at last gained on the summit, and the Gordons and the
Borderers soon cleared the defenders out at the point of the bayonet. The worst
of the fighting was now ov.i, and these two regiments bivouacked on the ground
they had so gallantly won, while the Bedfords and Dogras drove the enemy across
the ridge behind Malakand into the Swat valley beyond Khand.

Frnm The Ui<jhland Drigndp,
XIV

PIPER FINDLATER AT DARGAI

By D. C. Parry

It was close upon 2.80 when the final attempt was made, and it was preceded

by an incident which recalls the old days when the commanding officer, removing

his hat, harangued his men before going in.

After a message had been heliograplied for a concentrated fire of guns on the
peak, Lieutenant-Colonel Mathias, a gallant Welshman, turned to the regiment,
and in words now historic, said, ' Gordon Highlanders, the General has ordered
that position to Le taken at all costs — the Gordons will t ';e it 1 *

Then Major Macbean sprang out of cover at the head of his company, and
with a yell the Gordons swarmed from the protecting ridge into the zone of fire.

Led by Colonel Mathias, with Macbean on his right and Lieutenant A. F.
Gordon on his left — with the pipes skirling the ' Cock of the North ' — the irresistible
mass of waving kilts and white helmets swept on for the first rush.

A murderous hail tore up the dust in the hollow ; Macbean went down, but
cheered his men on as they passed by him.

Piper Findiater fell, shot through both feet, but, struggling into ,i sitting
posture, continued to play, like more than one Scottish piper in the brave
Peninsular days.

The first rush was followed by a second, officers leading, and then by a third,
and in forty minutes they had done the business with a roll of three officers and
tliirty men either killed or wounded.

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A« the leading companies breasted the steep zig-zag patli, the troops on the
other side of the basin followed in support, and the enemy, terrified at all this
valour, scuttled down the opposite slopes of the lull, leaving little for the British
bayonet to accomplish when it gained the . m t I

But many brave deeds had been done mean-.vhile, among them that of Private
Ijawson, who under heavy Are carried Lieutenant Dingwall out of danger, and
then ran back to pick up Private Macmillan, receiving two wounds himself

It was pt first reported that Pijicr Jlilne had been the hero of Dargai— Milne
was shot through the bagpipes in the Chitral campaign-but the official gaiette
settled the matter by awarding the V.C. to Piper G. Findlater, No. 2591. and for
several months he was probably one of the most talked-of men in the British Isles

His pluck was undoubted, and fine was the example he set j moreover his act
was of so dramatic a nature as to win the approval of every one with an eye to
effect, and when, at Nctley Hospital, her Majesty rather than allow her wounded
soldier to stand, rose in her wheeled chair to pin the Cross on his breast, his
triumph was complete.

I remember how he was cheered to the echo when, at the Military Tournament
he entered the arena, with the grey-coated pipers of the Gordons, a stout, short-
necked man with a suggestive double limp that told of Dargai wounds but barely

From Tht V.C.

DARGAI RIDGE

By Theodore Goodridge Roberts

Thank God, I have in my laggard blood

The vim of the Englishman,
Which is second to none from North to South,

Save the fire of the Scottish clan—
Suve the blood of the lads who died

On the rocky mountain-side,
And went to the hell of the heated guns

As a lover goes to his bride.

The Gurkhas laughed at the whining balls—

And they were of alien race,
And the English drave at the smoking rocks

And their subalterns set the p.^ce.
Oh, the blood of the lads who fell

When the valley lay in a I '' ;
Thank G(.d, that the men i. East and West

Cheer at the talc they teli.

The Gurkhas jay in the slaughfer-plaee.

Save a few that had battled through—
Their brown brave faces raised to the steep

Where the flags if the marksman flew —
Their great souls cheering still

(Souls that no ball could kill)
Unto the cars of the few who crouched

Under the crooked hill.

SCOTLAND FOR EVER

The English went as maids to a dance

Or hounds to the huntsman's call.
And the English lay in the valley-lap

And smeared their blood on the wall.
Ob, the blood that knows no shame

And the valour clear of blame,
Thank God that the world is f^ about

With the gold of an English name.

Then the men of the Gordon Highlanders

With their bagpipes shrilling free —
The lads of the heather pasture -side.

The lads of the unclad knee.
Charged— wh-. -e their friends lay dead —

Over the green and red
To the cry of the regimental pipes

And the flip of the killing lead.

They passed the level of sprawling shapes

And the valley of reeking death,
They struck the rocks of the mountain-pass

Where the smoke blew up like breath.
Little they thought of fame

Or the lifting of a name ;
They only thought of the mountain-crest

And the circle of spitting flame.

Thank God, I find in my lagging blood.

Deep down, the fire of a man.
And the heart that shakes with a mad delight

At the name of a Highland clan,
At the name oi the lods who died

On the rocl'y mountain-side,
And went to the hell of the heated guns

As a lover goes to his bride.

XVI

IHI?: SEAFORTHS AND CAMERONS AT ATBARA
By G. W, Steevens

The bugle sang out the advance. The pipes screamed battle, and the line started
forward, like a ruler dra^i-n over the tussock-broken sand. Up a low ridge they
moved forward : when would the Dervishes fire ? The Camerons were to open
from the top of the ridge, only three himdred yards short of the zariba. . , . Now
the line crested the ridge— and men knelt down. * Volley-firing by sections '—
and crash it came. . . . The line knelt very firm, and aimed very steady, and
crash, crash, crash they answered it. . . .

Bugle again, and up and on . . . the line of khaki and purple tartan never
bent nor swaved. . . . The officers at its head strode self-coutainedly— they
might have been on the hill after red-deer only from their locked faces turned
unswervingly towards the bullets could you see that they knew and had despised

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the dungera. And the unkempt, unshaven Tomniiis, whci in camp hthuviil liltl.-
enough hke Covenanters or Ironsides, were now quite transformed. It wu> not
so difficult to go on— the pipes picked you up and carried you on— but it was
diffleult not to hurry ; yet whtMicr they aimed or advanced tliey did it onlcrly,
gravely, without speaking. The bullets had whispered to raw youngsters in one
breath the secret of all the glories of the British army. . .

Now they were moving, always without hurry, down a gravellv incline. Three
men went down without a cry at the very foot of the Union Jack, and c;ily one
got to his feet again ; the Hag shook itself and still blazed splendidly. Next a
supremi'.y furious gust of bullets, and suddenly the line stood last. Before it
was a loose low hedge of dry camel-thorn -the zariba, the redoubtable zariba. . . .
Just half a dozen tugs, and the impossible zariba was a gap anil a scattered henii
of brushwood. Beyond is a low stockade and trenches j but what of that '
Over and in I Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah I

Now the inside suddenly sprang to lif,\ Out of the earth came dusty, black,
half-naked shapes, running, running and turning to shoot, but running away.
And in a second the inside was a wild confusion of IliKlilanders, purple tartan
and black-green, too, for '.he Seaforths had brought their perfect column through
the teeth of the Hre, and were charging in at the yap. Inside that zariba was
the most astounding labyrinth ever seen out of a nightmare. , . . There was no
plan or system in il, only mere confusion of stumbling-block and pitfall. ... It
took some company-leading ... but the otB.ers were equal to it : each pieked
his line am', ran it, and if a lew of his company were lost— kneeling by green-faced
comrades cr vaguely bayoneting alonf> with a couple of chance companions—
they kept the mass centred on the work in hand.

For now began the killing. Bullet and bayonet and butt, the whirlwind of
Highlanders swept over. AnJ by this time the Lincolns were in on the right, and
the Maxims, galloping right up to the stockade, had withered the left, and the
Warwicks, the enemy's cavalry definitely gone, were vollcving off the 1 'acks as
your beard comes off under a keen razor. Farther pnd farther they cLared the
ground— cleared it of everything hke a living man, for it was left carpeted thick
enough with dead. Here was a trench ; bayonet that man. Here a little straw
tuki I warily round to the door, and then a volley. Now in column through this
opening in the bushes ; then into line ; and drop those desperately firing shadows
among the dry stems beyond. For the running blacks— poor heroes— still flred,
t hough every second they fired less and ran more. And on, on the British stumbled
and slew, till siuldenly there was unbroken blue overhead, and a clear drop under-
foot. The river I And across the trickle of water the quarter-mile of dry sand-
bed was a fly-paper with scrambling spots of black. The pursuers thronged the
bank in double line, and in two minutes the paper was still black-spotted, only
the spots scrambled no more. ' Now that,' panted the most pessimistic senior
captain in the brigade — ' Now I call that a very good fiiht.'

From li'fift Kit'-kfwr tt k'li '-turn.

THE RECORD OF THE GORDONS

By Thomas F. G. Coates

SxYLEr regimental!;- t'... .y..nd Highlanders, it is as ' Tne Gordons ' that they

arc popularly known both to the army and to the public. There have always

beer, a family of Gordons in Scotland. They have marked many a brilliant

paje of history, and have been notable especially in the district around Aberdeen

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fur several centuries. Not least anioiii^^t their dee«U is the esUblislunent of this
fine regiment. It was ' kiucd into xistcnce ' «t the close of the eighteenth
century by the then Duchess of Gordon (n4e Jane Maxwell), wife of the fourth
duke. Of the duke, Mr. James Milne, in lus interesting book about the regiment —
The Gordon IlighlaruUrt : Being the itory oftheae lionnie Fightera, remarli : * He
was the " Cock o' the North," but (wrhaps the Duchess, with her romping spirit,
pot infrequently played the tune.'

In their early years the regiment served in Ireland, in Spain, Corsica. Elba,
and in Holland. They had quiet times in the beginning of their career. Greater
activity followed. They had a brush with the French at £gmnut-op-Zee, where
they gave proof of the mettle of which they were made, and scored their flnt
victory.

Next they had a turn in Egypt and greatly distinguished themselves, and
lessened their numbers. At Alexandria they played a conspicuous part, and
considerably aided Sir Ralph Abercromby to defeat the French ui»d r Mensu on
March 21, 1801. They enga'jed in the operations against Cor>enhagen, and it
January 1809 were performing valiant deeds in the Peninsu'a. The regiment
took part in the battle of Corunna, where the British army, some 15,000 strong,
under the command of Sir John Moore was attacked by more than 20,000 French.
They fought one of the hottest engagements of that severe conflict, and they won.
The casualties amongst the British troops were heavy in that engagement, but
Ihtii enemy's loss was far greater. The British army gained a notable victory,
and the Gordon Highlanders did their part in the winning of it. This was the
battle in which Sir John Moore was killed, h^^ving been badly woundsd by a shell.
He died in the hour of victory.

The Gordons were at Torres Vedras in tht following year, and throughout
the Peninsular wars they maintained a disthiguislied reputation, engaging in
many severe struggles, and earning by their deeds the warm eulogies of the Duke
of WeUington.

At Almarez the Gorilcns did heroic deeds. They were at the great engagement
of Vittoria. There the Duke of Wellington, on June 21, 1818, beat the French
army commanded by Joseph Buonaparte, King of Spain, and Marshal Jourdan.
The men engaged on either side were about 60,000. The battle raged long and
furiously. The British won a magnificent victory, but they <ost 500 oflicers and
men killed, and nearly SOOO wounded. And the Gordon Highlanders suffered
severely. Marshal Jourdan lost all his guns and ammunition, and his marshal's
baton to boot, and the Gordon Highlanders helped him to that loss. They were
told at Maza, Mr. Milne relates, that the strain of their fine work had been so
severe that they must be dead beat, and would nut be able to take part in the
charge. Weary they were with hard fighting, but the Gordons went into the
charge nevertheless, and into the front of it, and another British victory was
won. The story of St. Pierre is a repetition of this. The Gordon Highlanders
were very much in it, and success came again.

So the story runs on. Where the fight v,'as iiottest they desired to be, and they
often had their desire fully satisfied. Wherever liicy fought they added honours
to their name. Time after time in that memorable Peninsular campaign were
ths Gordon Highlanders as hard at work as any of the service, always fighting
well and bravely, following one briUiant piece of work with another, and so on
till the great day of Waterloo in ^jlgium, when Wellington fought and finally
defeated the great Napoleon.

In the Waterloo fight there were engaged on the one side the French army
of 72,000 men and 246 guns under Napoleon. The Duke of WeUington pitted

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Z„.r ^ *^Jf' ?,' ";' DucliM. of Gordon of the kiun. .nd ColonH Cameron
of the Gordon H.ghlanden w.. one of tho«e ,.re«nt at h, . I«d, ih 'i bLll T^^
wo. on June IS 1814. Quatre Bras earae' the next diy It wa, there Jf.

ofWellington to n.ive against the French hne. Th'! duke's an>wer wL. .trik n.

Have patience,' «.,d he, • yo-i '11 have plenty of work hv a^d h J '^;. h '•

patience! The duke knew well how kee*^ f„r\h.Zht thoL t^n Jw;,^!™

M7«r.te';r::t'"th: Zom t" "•^r'-' "^ "-^ wh™ thrti:ra"me ToTi"

^rtt^t^ete^y't.^g^ittn'b^r^rtli'.^'.rve^t^^^^^^^

trt'tt\^"i''1,\f r"'^"'' '^'^-"° "°t^^^^^^^^

It thrir. " H'*"'"-"™ '""1 I^rformed their t«k and knew that thiday

.h-'^L^'''.''^j*t' ^°"'™ Highlanders were on the left of the British line and
.tn,^. "A''"' ^".""'""S '"' "O'-l' "hilst Na,K.leon wa. having h touih«t
■tnigglc. At a critical moment in the fortunes of the day the Gordoni had thrir
onged-for order,. Galloping up to them Sir Denis Pack brSughrthe ord r rom
the duke, and he conveyed the message in these terms, ' Mnd yl»m^n,\'n^r-

Frr'Jh'S"''''^ of the Highlanders had amazed, and in a degree shaken the
Jrench column, which thus proved ill able to reocl a bold «ttA..k ltZ.1 .i
driving of a small solid body'^into a loose ma^s.^^^A ?he mome'nTup cl nled Z

UniL f '"'*'•"'; " ^^\^" " ™™ between the horsemen aSd th High!
landers. In some instances the latter clung to the stirnm leathers nf .h .„V.!,.
he better to get d-p i,,t„ . fight which bLme IZT " Scotrand fSr eve" "
rose the cry at that perfect feat of arms, and we still hear -t

You have saved the day, Highlanders," Sir Denis Pack declared " but vou
must return to your position-there is more work to be done." ' "

of iJT^^c^'n "' '"'*'"' P''''"'' ^ «'°"°"' P'" '" 'he crushing and final defeat

wei^rttX:^cd!'^s^b:'e^;;:„'?^Thfyrw%r^^

LT- ,?'('°?^P"'J," "" I""'™" MuUnT, buTh e ^1° he'y^didToTgem;
fighting they desired. Plenty was to come, however, and it came with the Afihi^
th^ r^"" '^ 1°"^°" Hiehlanders went, and this time ™ "he™ wis a™
them. A«am our hero was with them at that dread Majuba dav in SoSh

the hardest fate for a soldier to endure. The 91ind subscqu.=ntly absorbed the 7Sth

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and til caiiu' t III' 'iiiil buttiiliitii (iunlmi llifjlil.itnlirs. Tlivy Krvrd with dutinction in
Egypt u((Aii<^' Arubi, unit tlity were thr lu tuik or Dar^fti. which they took while
thrir wnumlod piprrt, including Findlutrr, pinycd the ' C'lK'k u' the North.* it wm
there tlmt Culoiu-I Mathian, on OctotH-r 'JU, lHt>7, addressed them in a brief Hiirech
which shows the way the coTiimuiulers of the Uordun Highlandrn have alwayi
known the spirit of their nun :— ■

* Men ut' Lhi' Gordon lli){hhinden» :

' The uenirtil \\ii> ordered that position to lie tukcn ut uny cuxt.

' The liordon Hi;ihlunc|ers will tukc it I '

All the worltl knows how the fainoiis n '^inicnt performed the task. It was uf
them that the lute Sir William Loekliurt rtinurketl in eonneetjun with tliiit ^reat
achievement : ' When I ({uve iirdcr<t for the tukitifi uf Dar^iii by the Gordon High-
landers, it wuH Huid to mr that I miKht us well attempt tu take an army up into
the clouds. Wherever Seotsinen (jo, however, w* nlways mnna^e to do very
well.'

l-'rum Hnt'ir Mnrdniiiihl ; or thi- I'niitif uho bfcarnt ii Omrral.

iii¥^m

CHAPTER X

South Africa

1881-1901
I

THE QUEEN'S OWN CAMERON HIGHLANDERS
The Story oj the Regiment

The (Ja.uerons «cre raised in 1793 by Sir Ala,, tai„iroi, ,,r J-:,rach, «ho liad
fought as n volunteer „, a Driti.h cavalry corps iluri,,^- the Anieriean War
of Independence. He drew the first reertiit.s fro,n a„,„n^" the ,nen,ber.s of his
r.„ ■ h'" '"7"'^»»-*"'''. '""' (sut-eeeding to the n„„,l,cr of a reciment that had
.een disbanded some nine years before) the Regiment ca.„c i„l„ bdng as the 79th
H,ghland-Caniero,na,i Volunteers), changing its name lo tlie rull, (Cameron

nltnd^r B '"'*■ /" '*r i "'" ^•'-"^d as the 71.th (QueenVs Own (■a,",™;"

Oueen's n>t' ^=8""«" = J! '"'; <l'''™rdi„g its nun.ber, has hern known as the

Queen s Own Cameron H.gl,landers since 1881. Until r«t„l vcars it had only

one Hcgular battalion. " -

The principal campaigns und battles of the Cameroiis include ■

Flanders, 1704-3. ~ -

Nimeguen, 1794.

Egmont-op-Zec, 1799.

Quiberoii, 1800.

Vigo, 1800.

Cadiz, 1800.

Mandora, 1801.

Egj'pt, 1801.

Alexandi-ia, 1801.

Copenhagen, 1807.

Peninsula, 1808-14.

Corunna, 1809.

Flushing, 1809.

Cadiz, 1810.
J'uentcs d'Oiiori), 1811.
Salamanca, 1812.
Burgos, 1812.
Pyrenees, 181.3.
Nivelle, 1818.
Xivc, 1818.
Toulouse, 181 +.
Qaatre Bras, 1815.
Waterloo, 1813.
Netherlands, ISIj.
Crimea, 1854-C.
Alma, 1854.

Dalaclava, 1834.
.Sevastopol, 1853.
Indian Mutiny, l.SjS,
I.ucknow, 1858.
Asliank'e, 1871.
i:svpl, 1882.
Tcl-el-Kebir, 1882.
N'ilo, 1884-5.
Atbara, 1898.
Khartoum, 1899.
.South Africa, 1899-1902,

imond Hill, 1900.

THE PRINCESS LOUISE'S (ARGYLL AND SUTHERI \XD

HIGHLANDERS)
The Story oJ the Regiment

The Argylls u,id Sutherlands were originally two more distinctively separate
corps than the two battalions of most regiments have been. The Argyll' were
raised at btir ing by the Duke of Argyll, as the 9811, (Arpvllshire llishlanders)
Regunent of loot, in 1794 ; were re-numbered the 91st in 179(i ; and in 1809 re-
linquished their distinctive title ami were known liv li.e ri,i„iber onlv At the
same tune the Highl.ind dress was temporarily abandoncil, i„ deference to an
omcial notion that it discouraged recruiting. In 1821 the regiment became the

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Olst (ArgylUhire) Regiment of Foot; in 1864, the 91st (Argyllshire) Highlanders;
and in 1872 the Olst (Princess Louise's Argyllshire) Highlanders.

The Sutherlands were raised in 1800 by the Eurl of Sutherland, and gazetted
as the 98rd Highlanders ; varying this title in 1861 to the 98rd (Sutherland
Highlanders) ; and in 1881 the two regiments were united under their present
name, as the 1st and 2nd battalions of the Princess Louise's (Argyll and
Sutherland Highlanders), the following being the principal campaigns and battles
in which one or both of them have fought :

America, 1779- 83.
Guiana, 1706.

Cape of Good Hope, 1S06.
Peninsula, 1808-1-*.
Roloia, 1808.
Vimitra, 1808.
Corunna, 1800.
Flushing, 1800.
Talavera, 1809.
Pyrenees, 18 IS
Nivclle, 1818.
Nive, 1818.
Orthes. 1814.

Toulouse, 1814.
Bayonnc, 1814.
Netheriands, 1814-13.
Bergen -op- Zoom, 1814.
Antwerp, 1814.
New Orleans, 1815.
Canada, 1838.
South Africa, 184G-7.
South Africa, 1851-3.
Crimea, 1834-6.
Alma, 18M.
Balaclava. 1834.
Kcrtch, 1854.

Yenikale, 1854.
Sevastopol, 1855.
Indian Mutiny, 1857-8.
Lucknow, 1857.
Kohitcund, 1858.
South Africa, 1879.
South Africa, 1809-1902.
Elondslaagte, 1899.
Modder River, 1899,
Magcrefontein, 1890.
Paardeberg, 1900.
Thubanchu, 1900.

MAJUBA HILL (i88i)
By Mark Lovell

The Gordons were attached to Sir Evelyn Wood's column, about a hundred and
fifty being present on the fatal occasion of Majuba Hill. Here Majors Hay and
Singleton, with Lieutenants Hector Macdonald, Ian Hamilton, and Ian Afac-
donald, behaved with signal courage and devotion to duty in the whirlwind
of destruction that enveloped the devoted band of seven hundred. Longer than
appeared possible they held their own against the hail of bullets that fell amongst
them ; then officers, revolver in hand, tried in vain to check the rout that seemed
to be imminent, whilst above the sound of gun-shots, the hoarse cries of pain, and
the triumphant shouts of the foe. Major Hay's calm and cheery voice was heard,
* Men of the Ninety-Second, don't forget your bayonets I '

The exhortation was not unheeded. Again and again the Boers, with fierce
and exultant shouts, swarmed up the side of the hill, and made furious attempts
to carry it at a rush, but each time were driven back by the bayonets, many of
wliich were dyed with blood. Then came the end. The Times report stated
that * the handful of Highlanders were the last to leave the hill, and remained
there throwing down stones on the Boers and receiving them at the point of the
bayonet.'

The end of that terrible struggle found Hector Macdonald a prisoner in
the hands of the enemy. He had been captured fighting, and had only sub-
mitted to superior force. One of the Boers who approached to receive the
submission of the heroic British remnant which still remained imscathed
was attracted by the sporran of the stalwart Highlander, and snatched at it.
Still holding insult worse than death, the young lieutenant struck down his ill-
mannered foe. Death for the desperate prisoner seemed at this crisis to be
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brave young Scotsman did not desert him in this his gravest and worst extremity.
Upon a second Boer arriving to dispatch the lieutenant with his rifle, the first one
generously interposed, forgiving the blow that had laid him prostrate, and saying,
' No, he is a brave man, too good to kill. Let him live I '

From fi/fliling Mm;

THE GORDONS AT ELANDSLAAGTE
By G. W. Steevens

Elandslaaote is a little village and railway station seventeen miles north-east of
Ladysmith, and ... on all grounds it was desirable to smash Elandslaagte. . . .

About half-past two we turned and beheld the columns coming up behind us.
The aist Field Battery, the 5th Lancers, the Nutiil Mounted Volunteers on the
road ; the other half of the Devons and half the Gjrdon Highlanders on their
tisins— total, with what we had, say something short of three thousand men and
eighteen guns. It was battle.

The trains drew up and vomited khaki into the meadow . . . then a masa
of khaki topping a dark foundation— the kilts of the Highlanders. . . .

The attack was to be made on their front and their left flank — along the hog-
back of the big kopje. The Devons on our left formed for the front attack ; the
Manchesters met on the right, the Gordons edged out to the extreme rightwaid
base, with the long, long boulder-freckled face above them. The guns flung
shrapnel across the valley ; the watchful cavahy were in leash, stminmg towards
the enemy's flanks. It was about a quarter to five, and it seemed curiously dark
for the time of day.

No wonder — for as the men moved forward before the enemy the heaven?
were opened. From the eastern sky swept a sheer sheet of rain. With the first
swabbing drops horses turned their heads away, trembling, and no whip or
spur could bring them up to it. It drove through mackintoshes as if they were
blotting-paper. The air was filled with hissing, underfoot you could see solid
earth melting into mud, and mud flowing away in water. It blotted out hill
and dale and enemy in one grey curtain of swooping water. Yon would have
said that the hea . is had opened to drown the wrath of men. And thro' it the
gims still thundered and the khaki columns pushed doggedly on.

Tie infantry came along the boulders aitd began to open out. The supports
and reserves followed up. And then, in a twinkling, on the stone-pitted hill-
face burst loose that other storm — the storm of lead, of blood, of death. In a
twinkling the first line were Hqwit behind rocks firing fast, and the bullets came
flicking round them. Men stopped and started, staggered and dropped limply
as if the string were cut that held them upright. The line pushed on ; the
supports and reserves followed up. A colonel fell, shot in the arm ; the regi-
ment pushed on.

They came to a rocky ridge about twenty feet high. They clung to cover,
firing. Then rose, and were among the shell bullets again. A major was left
at the bottom of that ridge, with his pipe in his mouth and a Mauser bullet
through his leg ; his company pushed on. Down again, fire again, up again,
and on 1

Another ridge won and passed — and only a more hellish hail of bullets beyond
it. More men down, more men pushed into the firing line — more death-piping
bullets than ever. The air was a sieve of them ; they beat on the boulders like
a million hammers ; they tore the turf like a harrow.

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Another ridge crowned, another welcoming, whistling gust of perdition, more
men down, more pushed into the firing line. Half the offlcen were down ; the
men puffed and stumbled on. Another ridge— God I would this cursed hill
never end t It was sown with bleeding and dead behind j it was edged with
•tingmg fire before. God I Would it never end ? On, and get to the end of
It 1 And now it was surely the end. The merry bugles rang out like cock-crow
on a fine mornmg. The pipes shrieked of blood and the lust of glorious death.
tix bayonets I Staff offlcera rushed shouting from the rear, unploring, cajoling,
cursmg, slammmg every man who could move into the line. Line— but it was
a line no longer. It was a surging wave of men— Devons and Gordons, MancheL*er
and Light Horse all mixed inextricably; subalterns, commanding reciments,
soldiers yelling advice, officers firing carbines, stumbling, leaping, kiUing; falline
all drunk with battle, shoving through hell to the throat of the enemy. And
there beneath our feet was the Boer camp and the last Boers galloping out of it
There also— thank Heaven, thank Heaven I— were squadrons of Lancers and
Dragoon Guards storming in among them shouting, spearing, stamping them
mto the ground. Cease fire I r o i- b

It was over— twelve hours of march, of reconnaissance, of waiting, of pre-
P??",'?"'..*"° ^" *" •">"' "' «''*«''. But half an hour crammed with the life
of half a lifetime.

From Ca/h j to Ladygiitith.

TWO HEROES OF ELANDSLAAGTE
By D. C. Parry

Veey gallant was the action of Captain Meiklejohn at Elandslaagte, when so
heavy a fire was poured upon the advance that the Gordons began to waver.

Then, in the true old Scottish spirit, Meiklejohn sprang forward, and calling
on the men to follow him, led them on in an irresistible rush that ended in the
capture of the kopje.

Unhappily the captain went down almost at the start of it, with four wounds,
and an empty sleeve afterwards showed how the good right arm had to come off
almost at the shoulder. . . .

Very fine was the heroism of Sergeant-Jiajor Robertson at the same battle
a sta wart Scot from Dumfries, who led rush after rush of the Gordons when the
Highlanders and the Manchesters charged down through the lightning and the
gloom ; when the Boers so shamefully abused the use of the white flag, and oaid
for it with their lives. '^

He afterwards led a small party to the capture of the enemy's camp, and stuck
to the position manfully, receiving two dang<:rous wounds.

From Tit V.C.

THE BLACK DAY OF MAGERSFONTEIN

By Sir George Doughf

It was rather more than half an hour after midnight when the Highland Brigade

moved off. The story of its advance on Magersfontein has been told too often

to require detailed recapitulation. From the first the luck was against it. The

weather, which had before been unfavourable, had now grown worse : a thuider-

storm broke, and a conti uous Hownpour of ram descended. This was accom-

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panied by pitchy darkneis. The Brigade advanced in the only forniation which
under the given conditions was possible— that of nuiss of quarter r .1 »_
oomp'-y behind company in close order. Even so, and with thf lonal

pteca_tion of guide-ropes, the preservation of the formation was di. At, and
many men became detached from their companies. What materially added to
the difficulty of the advance was the nature of the ground—encumbered with
boulders, overgrown with prickly brush, and now reduced by the rain to mud
Agam, the compasses held by Major Benson, R.A., the stall officer who acted
as Wauchope's guide, were repeatedly falsified by the electricity in the air.
the uonstone roclts, the proximity of the rifles. All this caused delay, of which
there is dear proof that Wauchope realised the danger. Under the circum-
stances the wonder is that the Brigade should have succeeded in reaching its
destination. Before storting Wauchope had explained his plan to his sta« and
rommandmg olBcers. It was briefly as follows:— To approach Magersfontein
Hill and deploy under cover of darkness, and, lying down, to wait tiU there should
be light enough to advance. Wauchope's intention then was to 'envelope'
the hill, getting well round the eastern side of it— the Black Watch being on the
right, thi Seaforths in the centre, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on
the left, and each of these battalions having ultimately two companies in front
two in support, and four in reserve. The Highland Light Infantry was to be
kept back to act as a general reserve. This pUin, as things turned out, the delay
above referred to must of itself have sufficed to modify.

The bearings given at starting had been forty-flve degrees for one thousand
yards, and then thirty-two degrees on to Magersfontein HiU. When the column
had been for over three hours on the march, an occasional lightning-flash showed
the outhne of Magersfontein Hill looming indistinctly ahead. But with the
expenence of Tel-el-Kebir probably present to his mind, the general decided to
gain a few more yards before deploying. It must be remembered that he was
stUl more than seven hundred yards from the foot of the hiU, and that the exist-
ence of the trenches which ran out into the plain before it were entirely unknown
to him. At this juncture a further delay was occasioned by the impingement of
the leading battalion, the Black Watcj, on a particularly dense mass of bush,
whilst in order to get the entire column clear of this obstacle a further advance
was necessary. Then Wauchope gave the order to deploy. And in doing so
he presumably recognised that the leading of Major Benson— admirable as, when
all things are considered, it must be allowed to have been— bad conducted him
somewhat to the west of the ' salient ' of Magersfontein, the point at which he
had aimed. For instead of, as previously arranged, directing that both the
Seaforths and Argylls should deploy to the left of the Black Watoh, he now
ordered that one of these battalions should deploy on either side of the leading
battalion. By this means he sought to correct a deviation which, as it turned out,
was to have serious results— though these could not have been foreseen— for it
led the column right on to the strongest part of the Boer trenches.

There are various stories current as to the means by which the Boers were
im 'rmed that the British were approaching. It is said, for instance, that the
wo nng of c Ught from the left of the column gave the necessary warning. By
whom it was waved, or how the waver escaped detection, is not stated. Other
stories speak of a signal by lanterns from a farmhouse near the point of departure,
and of a sentry posted in front of the trenches. By some means or another there
could be Uttle difficulty about m;.,ung the intimation, and it is known that through-
out the night the Boer olBcers were active in the trenches keeping their men on
the alert to meet the expected advance.

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The deployment was proceeding, and had reached the leading companies
of the Argyll and .'' ' erlond Highlanders — so that in a few minutes more
the whole Brigade would have been ready for the attack— when, without warning,
from the trenches in front, to right and left, and from the hillside above, a con-
verging fire was poured in by the enemy. The surprise was complete, the Brigade
was cauglit at a terrible disadvantage. It has been stated elsewhere that the
one redieniiiig feature in the circumstances was that the Boers had not fully
realised the closeness of their enemies, and hence much of their fire went too high.
This was, however, scorccly the cose ; much of the aiming was of deadly precision,
whilst numerous bullets also struck the ground in front of the leading battalions.
Instantly grosping what had taken place, the General gave the word to charge. But
the intensity of the fire made an advance impossible. The leading battalions, how-
ever, eoniplcted the deployment as if on parade, the only confu.liin which occurred
being due to some of the companies becoming entangled in a barbed wire fence.

When the Are broke out Wauchope was standing a little in advance of the
coluum. with Major Benson who had acted as his guide. Captain Cumming-Bruce
of the Black Watch, who had been assisting Benson, and one of his own A.D.C.'s,
his kinsman. Lieutenant A. G. Wauchope, of the some regiment. With the same
calmness which had characterised him on parade that afternoon, he now advanced
stroight ohead, and then a little to the left. The bullets were flying thick and
fast, anil as he advanced he half turned to Lieutenant Wauchope and repeated
twice the words, ' This is fighting." The object of his present movement was to
reconnoitre the Boer |iosition. Before him, to his riglit front, there was a con-
siderable gap in the line of fire — this being tlie point at which Captain MacFarlan
of the Black Watch succeeded later in passing the enemy's lines. Quickly seizing
this fact, the General turned to hIsA.D.C.and said, ' A.G., do you go back and bring
up reinforcements to the right of A company." To prevent mistakes the young
officer repeated the order, and then hastened back to execute it. On his return
to the front, of the three figures he had left there but one remained standing.
Wauchope had been shot by two bullets, of which one entered the groin, the other
furrowing the temple. When his body was found next day by Captain Rennie
of the Black Watch, the legs were slightly gathered up, as would be caused by
the muscular contraction following the wound in the groin. This would appear
to indicate that death had been swift if not instantaneous.

A story, which is believed by the rank and file tliroughout both battalions of
his old regiment, though the writer has sought in vajn for evidence on which to
base it, would assign to his dying moments the words, ' Don"t blame me for this,
lads ! " It will be seen that this speech is capable of widely different interpreta-
tions, according as the emphasis is laid on the second or third word of the sentence.
For, by emphasising the ' me," what is otherwise a mere reference to the proverbial
fortune of war assumes the character of a reflection on some other person or
persons. In the nature of things there is nothing unlikely in Wauchope"s having
used these words in the first sense, though, as I have said, beyond the vaguest
hearsay, there is no evidence that he did so use them. That he would have used
them^ in the second sense is to all who knew liim incredible.

Tlius, at the head of l>i» troops, in the performance of his duty, died one of the
bravest and truest soldiers, one of the most perfect characters, and one of the
best-loved men of his time. He perished in the moment of disaster, but for that
disaster he was in no sense or degree responsible. A wcllnigh impossible task-
one which partook, indeed, of the nature of a forlorn hope— had been set him,
and against this his better judgment had protested. But, having received his
orders, he loyally did his best to carry them out. . . .

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To describe jr. detail the bottle wliich followed Ihi- Gontral's iliath iI.hs not
fall mtbin the scope of this book. Suflicc it to say that his last ordir was i.romptlv
obeyed— such olDcers of the Black Watch as had not been placed /.«« ,;.■ combat
doubUng forward their men to the right of the companies already ixt.ii.h d.
where they were joined by the Seaforth Uighlandcrs. Thence, in the face ,.1' a
dead';- fire, they pushed forward, surmounting obstacles which bad been i.luced in
tJieir way, so that, within twenty minutes of the first surprise, several liundnd
[■'cn of the two battalions had made their way into the ga|i which had been espie.l
by Wauchope on the right of the Boer central trench, and in this manner hnd
reached the foot of the hill. One little party under Captain .MacFurlan of tb.'
Block \Vutch rushed stroight up; another party pcnitrotcd to tlie reverse si.ir
ond began to ascend there. So, for a time, it looked as if the fortime of Otter-
burn were about to be renewed, and 'a dead man would win the field.' But di ;lli
hao been too prompt for that— Wauchope's controlling mind, which, had he been
spared for half an hour longer, mi(,'lit well have guided his men to victory, was
too sorely missed j and despite the noblest gallantry disphived by the HIhI.-
landers, the temporary advantage had to be foregone. Manv there must have
been in those earlier stages of the fight who looked anxiously "for their loved and
trusted leader. Loter on it was reported that he had been carried wounded to
the rear. After that the heat and burden of the day were still to be endured—
when, through many hours of thirst and famishing, exposed to burning sun and
murderous nfle-flre ... the troops still clung with heroic tenacitv to their position.
But for ourselves the story is alreadv told. On the Tuesdav the General',
body was discovered by his faithful aide-de-camp. Captain J. G. ■Hennie, within
two hundred yards of the Boer trenches, and that night, amid the mourning nf
a host, was solemnly interred. An eye-witness thus describes the ceremony :

Last night we buried poor General Wauchope, his Brigade giving hini fare-
well honours. I shall never forget the scene. The body, wrapped in o soldier's
blanket, was laid on a stretcher borne by four Highlanders of the Black Wafcli.
Pipers from ever>' regiment solemnly preceded it, playing a lament- in front of
them the firing party with arms reversed, and behind hundreds more, voluntarv
mouniers, marching unarmed.

'The procession passed close to the hospital, and quite a number of men,
with one arm hanging limp by their side, raised the other to salute ns it passed.
. ^'"= service was taken by " Padre " Robertson, chaplain to the Highland
Brigade. At its close the sun was setting in the glorious beauty for which this
country is famous, ond we left ' Andy ' Wauchope, as most of his Brigade had
learned to call him, where he will lie peacefully enough when the tide of wiir
has surged over his head.

' I have never met a man of whom it could be more truly said, "Everyone
who knew him loved him." '

Kroni Lit'i' a/' Mtiji}r-ft

•III ti'iJiirlii}/^,

CAPTAIN TOWSE OF THE GORDONS
By D. C. Parry

The first man gazetted for the war was Captain Towse of the Gonlons, and a
gallont and pathetic story is his. . . .

After seeing service at Chitral, and on the Punjab frontier, he found himself
m the havoc of Magcrsfontein, where so many of the Highland Brigade bit the
dust.

"2 SCOTLAND FOR EVER

In that terril):c same qui piul lie tried to carry LieutenanlCili.ncI Downman,
wlio had been mortally wounded, to a place of safely; and when he failed to d(.
thw, he supported luin until tolour-SerKeujit Nelson .r,d I..nec-Corporal Hodjrson
came to his help. **

His second net of bravery was at Mount Thaba, where he took up a position
lar away from any s |i|K,rt with twelve men, the enemy, about ISO in number
niakiuK an attempt to .seize the same plateau, and gettiuK within a hundred yards
ol the little party licfore they were noticed.

Some of Iheni came to within forty yards and summoned him to surrender
Uut surreialcring was a thing never to the taste of the • Gi.y Gotxlons,' and,
heading his men in a charge, he drove the foe back.

Then, taking what cover they could. Captain Towsc and Iris handful opened
lire, and with such effect that, though the enemy numbered more than twelve to
one, tliey held the position, at fearful cost, however, to the gallant captain

.\ bullet destroyed the sight of both eves, and in the very prime of lusty
nil nhood— he was only thiity-si.^i at the time— he was left with the long, dark
years before him, illumined only by the memory of duty nobly done.
... ■'^'"' *'"'y "' "'"' ^™'' yii'Ids no more touching incident than that of the
blind Highlniid oflieer, led into the presence of his aged sovereign, in whose
service he had lost tlio most precious of all God's gifts, to receive tlie Cross from
licr own hand, the tears coursing down her elieelis the while.

Kmtii Uf r.''.

VIII

CiESAR'S CAMP

By Sir A. Conan Doyle

(.■.Es,\tt's fAMi' was garrisoned by one sturdy regiment, the Manchestcrs, aided
by a Colt automatic gun. . . . Three companies of the Gordons had been left
mar Cicsar's Camp, and those, under Captiiiu Carnegie, threw themselves into the
struggle. Four other companies of Gordons came in support from the town,
losing upon the way llieir splendid Colonel, Dick Cunynghame, who was killed by
a chance shot at three thousand yards, on that his first appearance since he had
recovered from his wounds at Elandslaagte. . . . Two companies of the COth
Rilles and a small body of the ubiquitou.i Gordons happened to be upon the
hill and threw themselves into the fray, but they were unable to turn the
tide. Of thirty-three Gordons under Lieutenant' MaeNaughton thirty were
wounded. As ,iur men retired under the shelter of the northern slope they
were reinforced by another hundred and fifty Gordons under the stalwart Miller-
\\allnutt. . . .

There has been no better fighting in our time than that upon Waggon Hill
on that January morning. . . . Through the long dav the fight maintained its
equilibrium along the summit of the ridge, swaying a little that wav or this, but
never amounting to a repulse of the stormers or to a rout of the defenders.
At four o'clock a huge bank of clouds wnich had towered upwards unheeded by
tlic struggling men burst suddenly into a terrific thunderstorm. . . . Upon the
bullet-swept hill the long fringes of fighting men took no more heed of the elements
than would two bulldogs who have each other by the throat. Up the greasv
hillside, foul with mud and with blood, came the Boer reserves, and up the northern
slope ciimc our own reserve, the Devon Regiment, fit representatives of that
virile county. Admirably led by Park, their gallant Colonel, the Devons swept

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llic Itocrs liiforc tliirii. anil the RilUs, Gonlorw, aiul I.inlit llorsr i.jiiuHl in Ihf
Willi churifc wliich llniilly citvirod llic riilifi'. . . .

Tht clu-irs of viitciry as thi' Dcv<un »»i|)t IIk^ riilj(c Imil hiarti iiid the ».ary
men upon Ciesar's (juni. to n siuiiliir i-rfort. .Mnnohe^lirs, C.onlims, anil Riflis
Bldi-il liy the lire of two Imtlerics. eleuriil the lun«-llel.iile.l position. Wet. eohl,
weary, nnil withont fooil lor twintv-six houn, the Ijiilrait^hil Tonmiiis slooil
yellinu anil waviiiK, uniiil the litter of ilyiiiK ami ilcail. . .

The Krini test of the casualty relurn'» shows that it was lo the linperial I.itjlit
Hurse . . . ihc Mancliestcn, the Uonlons, the Dcvons, anil the anil nillc Ilriiraile
that the honours of the ilav are ilue.

THE HIGHLAND BRIGADE AT KOODOOSBERG
By Sir .4. Conan Doyle

In oriler to ilmw the Uoer attention away from the thunderbolt which was obout
to fall n|ioii their left llank, a strong demonstration ending in a brisk action w;ri
made early ii: February U|K)n the extreme .■■:;ht of Cmnje's position. The force,
consisting of the Highland Brigade, two squadrons of the 8th Lancers, No. 7
Company Uoyal Engineers, and the 02nd Unttcrv, was under the eonmiand of
the famous Hector Mncilonuld. ...

The four regiments which coni|)oscd the infantry of the force— the Uluck
Watch, the Argyll ond Sutherlands, the Scaforths, and the Highland Light
Infantry— left I.,oid Methucn's camp on Satunlay, Febnmry d, and halted at
Fra.ser's Drift, p,issing on next day to Koodoosberg. The day was very hot and
the goiiig very heavy, and many men fell out, some never to return. The drift
(or ford) was fimnd, however, to be undefended, and was seized by Miieilonald,
who, after pitchi,-.g camp on the south side of the river, sent out strong parties
across the drift to seize and entrench the Koodoosberg and some adjacent kopjes
which, lying some three-quarters of a mile to the north-west of the drift, fonncd
the key of the position. A few Boer scouts were seen hurrying with the news
of bis coming to the head laager.

The effect of these messages was evident by Tuesday (February tl), when the
Boers were seen to be assembling upon the north bank. Bj next morning they
were there in co]\siderable numbers, and began an attack upon a crest held by
the .Seaforths. Macdonald threw two companies of the Blaek Watch and two
of the Highland Light Infantry into the fight. The Boers made -xccllent practice
with a 7-pounder mountain gun, and their rifle lire, cons dering the goi d
cover which our men had, was very deadly. Poor Tail of the Black Wateh,
good sportsman and gallant soldier, with one wound hanlly haded upon his
persim, was hit again. ' They 've got me this tune,' were his dying words. Blair
of the Seaforths had his carotid cut by a shrapnel bullet, and lay for hours while
the men of his company took turns to squeeze the artery. But our artillery
silenced the Boer gun, and our infantry easily held their artillery. ... It was
on the 9th that the brigade returned ; on the ICth they were congratulated by
Lord lloberts in person.

From TfiK 'irtfit Hler Wur.

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SCOTLAND FOR EX'ER

WHEN FIGHTING MAC WAS WOUNDED

By Thomas F. G. Coates

(General MACunHAi^ reached Ca|>c Town ttom India in the third week in
Junuary, and {irooeedcd at once t(> Moddcr Uiver. He had bi-en there little more
than a week when, with the Highland I)rit<adt', the 0th Lancers, and a battery of
Held artillery, he left Lord Methuin's camp and proceeded to Kuod<M)sl>erg Drift,
fourteen miles to the west.

At A.M. on 7th February the enemy established guns on the north end of
Koodiiosberg and shelled the breastworks which Macdonald was conntructinfi to
protect the drift.

On the right bank of the river, holding the south rnd of Kooduotiberg, were
the Black Watch, half battalion Scnfortli, one compa.ty of Highland Light
Infantry, and four giinn of the 62ml '■'icUl Battery. At the drift were seven
companies of the Highland Light Infantry. On the left bank were the Argyll
and Sutherland HiglUandcrs, the remainder tf the Seaforths, and two gims, the
!)th Lancers observing both flanks.

After firing shrapnel for some time, the enemy made a determined effort to
ilrive the Highlanders off Koodoiwbcrg. Reinforcements of three companies
Highland Light Infantry and four companies Seaforths were sent up in succession,
and the position was succi-ssfuUy maintained, firing going on till dark.

Meanwhile, nt Mucdonald's request, General Babington had been dispatched
from Modder River at 11.80 a.m. on the 7th with his own regiment, cavalry, ond
two batteries Horse Artillcr>'. Marching by the right bank, he thnutincd thu
north of KoodfKisberg, while on the left bank the »th Lancers, supported by two
guns and two companies Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, drove the enemy
back to Painter's Drift.

The enemy were forced to evacuate the position, which, however, they made
desperate efforts to retain. Heavy gunn '<: '\ •^\ Med X\\ii PHtish force, hut our
artillery silenced those guns. It was only aftci a day's lighting, in whieli the
Hiffhlandcrs greatly distinguished themselves, that the enemy were forced to retire.

The position gained by Muedoimld was important. His movement was the
more valuable as it diverted the attention of the Boers from the general plans of
Lord Robert:s. Much astonishment was caused in this country when, almost
immediately afterwards. Lord Methuen ord.^red the withdrawal of General Mac-
donald's force from Koodoosbcrg, ' under instructions from headquarters,' as the
telegrams from the front announced. ' The movement, which was only a recon-
naissance, had a most excellent effect.' The retirement from the position wa*
carried out after a desultory skirmish in perfect order, and the withdrawal was
described as being effected * in a workmanlike manner.*

General Macdonald, returning from this successful reconnaissance, was to
take part in that great and skilful operation which led to the surrender of the
Boer general, Cronje, and upwards of four thousand of his men. Lord Roberts*
plans were carefully hidden and most skilfully and unexpectedly carried out.
He succeeded in practically surrounding General Cronje's force. From the camp
on the Modder River on February 16th a great cloud of dust was seen. It was
the beginning of a movement, the object of which was to outwit Lord Roberts.
It was Bobs ' who djil the outwitting. General Knox's brigade was immediately
ordered out with two field batteries. The Boers held a strong position, and kept
it in the hope that their transport would get through. General Macdonald and

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tilt HigliUnU Brigad.. mmc.\ out la cul u(f the rrtirat by th. main driri. to the
Mpo. "* '" ""'' ''*' """" "' ••" """ «'"'"« ""' "-rough

Thr general movement, however, >ueee«le>l, and Maeilnnahl at,! i„irt of his
force .cro.. to the K.uth of the r.v.r. ami General tr.,„je wa, h?„ ,« KTLy
A temble e«,no„«le ,.f wh.eh the Highland Brigade git the f.,;; iK-neflt. w«

The engagement h-u. of a very .evcre nature, and it was one ngarding whieh
th. foreign expertn who wtnessed il-and the foreign expirl. were at all time"
na<«t ent>e„l-pa,d, in the me.,„ge, they .ent home ?o thdr g..«rnme,.K a h?gl
nbute to the .trategical art of Lord Kobcrt, and Ix>rd Kitehener. Th, i'luiX
«rg battle began on Saturday, Febru«r>- 17th. On the previou, Thur.'lay we
eti th.T.! '""'"' "'"■ ,"■' ","" '•■•"-guard at Klip ^raal, and it w.,s the,,
hefSrl M„ ir Vn T T T"^"^ d<^l'erate cBorU to get through to Bloemfontu.i
liefore their line of retreat was cut oil. Our infantry held the enemy in cheek
i,nt,l our re,nforeement» arrived. General, Kitehener and French >ui>senuen"y
Drift. "■ ""' '""*' '''■"•""''^'' '°"""'» "'" river in the direet,o„ of I'anrdcberg

The^Hi„h11n,r Z"'!," ""' ''"'"! ',"!'• '"'"'^'^"•'l I'y "'<■ l"Kh banks and dongas,
ihe Highland Brigade sup|„,rted by the Gloucester,, West Hidings, OxfoTd.,
and Buffs received orders to advance and clear the river bank of the enemv

varii'.'^f thlfR**"' "'"' t '''"'i ''"' "' """" " ""•>• «■"<■ »'""" » thousand
jords of the Boers, a murderous fire was [loured in upon thera

II -^"Ll'? "'" advancing unon a naturally strong position, one in whieh the

Uuer. were comparatively safe, lor the natural advantages of the country afforded

tliem excellent protection from our Are. Our men, on the other hand had to

advance across open land, where there was no cover

On the open veldt they made flne marks for the Boer snipers

A special correspondent of a daily newspaper thus describes whnt followed •

rhere was only the open veldt, os devoid of cover as the palm of ones hand and
f i^ 1,";' "J"' •?■!« road in England. At the first fusillade our men faltered
.^fJt^lL'' "''"rt -I'jtance then quickly grasping the situation and reaUsing
V liat was expected of them, down they went flat on thiir stomnchs, and, witfi

le help of their bayonets, soon contrived to throw up sufflcieiit eurth to afford
t .e-j some protection. Under a withering fire they remained in this position

he whole day flnng vo leys into the river banks, and thus keeping the enemy's
nrtilh."""' "'"'"' ^'""''' Snilth-Dorrien «ot round on their left with a battery of

General Mocdonuld was leadiiiB the Highland Brigade to the nttnek when he
was struck below the knee-cap by a Mauser bullet, whieh went nmn.l behind the

H?e's»H"J^" iTi M ^/.r""''' "l^'"^"^ '"'' '"■'°" ""^ ''V- " ""■" P'-«trated
ti he „,?t „f ?h m ">■=/<■"""'» '■"■■^'■- To his great regret he wa» compelled
afteraards ' "'".■"nder of that engagement and for some time

Fighting under great dimculties, the result of the Highland Brigade's advance
was accomplished .lunng the day. Lord Roberts reached the scene of the opera-
tions on the Sunday, and on the Monday evening the Boers were driven across
the river. Cronje then sent u request (v. jn armistice lor twenty-four hours, and
^t was expected that he would at on. s rrcnder. He determined, howew, to

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Tlic next few days were taken up in desultory firing, the British troops gradu-
ally, but surely, encircling the enemy, and getting close enough to strike the final
blow.

After a prolonged period of feverish artivity and no httle anxiety, the end
came, and Cronje surrendered with his entire ^-miy. This great victory, which
General .Macdonald had helped to bring about, came on the anniversary of Majuba
Day, and caused the greatest satisfaction. It must have been u source of peculiar
gratification to General Macd maid, who had never forgotten that day long ago in
1S81 when ho had to surrender to the Boers on Majuba Hill.

From llfclor MiicdomiM.

BATTLE OF PAARDEPLATZ (8th September 1900)

' Those Royal Scots are devils to go\'

Tins proved to be the last stand of Botha's main army. Hamilton's 'orce on
the right, BuUer's army on the left and in reserve, Smith-Dorrien dispt i his
brigade as follows :

First line, Royal Scots (right). Royal Irish (left). Second line, Gordon
Highlanders.

The battalion extended (less B Company detached as escort to 5-inch gun) at
a distance of 6500 yards from the enemy's position. Most of the enemy's shells
burst on impact, and did no harm. Each company in column of sections extended
to about ten paces, six companies formed firing line and supports, two companies
reserve ; thus, at the start, there were twelve lines at distances of 200 to 400 yards ;
these were reduced to lit lines, on the two reserve companies being sent to
prolong it. The country was much broken, the surface covered with larpe
stones and rocks, and at times the slopes were very steep. At 1600 yards from
the enemy's sangars the battalion came to a ravine 1000 feet deep, 400 yards wide,
the bottom was thickly wooded, and along its centre ran a swift river, fordable
only in places, the side nearest our approach was a sheer precipice, except for
two narrow guUies. Each captain led his company down these and across the
ravine ; their original position became much altered, and many men became
detached ; these were collected by Major Bodd and Captain Moir (Adjt.) and
formed by them into a party. The rapidity with which the battalion crossed
this formidable obstacle drew the following remark from Sir Redvers BuUer to
General Smith-Dorrien :

* By Jove I those Royal Scots are devils to go.'

On reaching the top of the further side of the ravine, the battalion was about
1200 yards from the enemy's sangars. The interval was flat, open, not any cover
whatever. The companies opened a heavy fire, and, noticing the artillery had
range and were enfilading the enemy's trenches, they commenced to advance
across the open. The left found a little cover near a small house, and pushed
on rapidly, reached dead ground close to the Boer sangars, and charged ; the Boers
fled. The infantry in the meantime constantly pushed forward to envelop, and
the whole of the enemy's line gave way. The battalion was reorganised quickly,
and followed in pursuit, but a dense fog fell on the mountain, and the advance
had to be stopped. The features of the action were the rapid advance of the
Royal Scots, and the support afforded the infantry by the artillery. It was
undoubtedly owing to this that the battalion, in its advance across the last 1200
yards, escaped casualties. The Boers mi.st have fired at random, fearing the

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enO^ding shells. Six Hedvcrs Duller, in orders that night, especially mentioned
the battalion for its conduct in the action. The following officers were mentioned
in despatches : Major VV. Douglas, Major Budi, Captain and Adjutant A. J. G.
Moir.

From IHan/ ofSf.rvicel nfthe lit Ilultalim tht Roi/at &ott during the Doer War.

XII

THE ROYAL SCOTS AT BERMONDSEY

-1 ■ 7 A.M. the column moved and marched on Uitkomst < >vered by mounted
.ifantry; the left of this screen was attacked by a hundrrd Boers, and two
jompanies of the battalion were sent to their support. ... It found Uitkomst
evacuated ; forty Boers now opened fire on our right. In front was Bermondsey,
and suspecting the enemy to be in position there, after leaving two Runs and two
hundred Royal Scots on Uitkomst, with orders to send on all availalile infantry OS
it came up, Douglas pushed on with one and a half companies M.I., two guns,
and hve and a halt companies Royal Scots. One compiiny M.I. was sent to cover
tlic right flank, half a company covered the front. The Bermondsey position
consisted of a hill, the top of which was covered with large rocks ; the enemy's
left rested on a precipice ; immediately in front of his position was a deep gully
m front of which a line of rocks jutted out at right angles to the enemy's front.
Ill these advanced rocks, which lay on the right of the column's line of ndvnnee,
Boers were concealed, and they did not disclose themselves until the M.I.
scouts were within a few yards of them, when they opened a hot fire from their
main and advanced position ; the two companies of the battalion forming an
advanced guard pushed on.

The field guns came into action at 1600 yards, whilst the machine gun of the
battalion was brought to a position where it could enfilade the line of advanced
rocks ; it was chiefly due to the machine gun that the enemy left his advanced
position. The two companies established themselves in a good fire position,
with the gully between them and the enemy, whose positicju was 1400 yards from
them. Douglas then sent 2nd Lieutenant Dalmahoy with E Company to turn
the Boer right. In spite of the difficult ground, he ettectrd this in a very able,
gallant way, and the Boers hastily retired. Lieutenant Dalmahoy, who had been
joined by Captain and Adjutant Moir, on his own initiative pushed on after the
retreating Boers, and the whole column, which had now been reinforced by the
pom-pom, and a halt battalion of the King's Royal Rifles, pressed forward. The
men of E Company displayed great gallantry by the cool way in which they
advanced through the rocks under a brisk fire. Thcv followed along a narrow
ridge which led to another kopje, Boschock, the two being connected with a
nek. The ground on this nek was flat and quite open, either side was precipitous.
The firing hne lay down in the open just short of the nek and about 420 yards from
the enemy. The two had entrenching ' implements ' amongst them, and, by
passing these to each other, each man managed to scrape a small mound in front
of him. The pom-pom came into action at 1600 yards, the field guns at 2000
yards, and the Boers retired into the Komati Valley. Captain Moir was wounded
in four places, 2iid Lieutenant Dalmahoy in two, Private Shcddon was killed
«r«o '™''' M^JIillan was wounded. Lieutenant Price, Lance-Corporals M'GiU,
M'.Millan and Fox, and Private Adams showed conspicuous courage, and risked
their lives to save others. Corporal Paul, who, ai:ter the officers were wounded,
showed coolness and judgment in command of the firing line, was promoted
Sergeant by Lord Kitchener. Lieutenant Price was recommended for the Victoria

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Cross, the other two ofTicers and the Lance-Corporals were mentioned in dispatches,
... Colonel D-juglas received the following telegram from Sir Bindon BtnoU's
Chief Staff Officer ; ' The Major-General congratulates you on your success."

From Diary o/the S'^rricet ofthf \*t Batlalwn Jloyal Srola
during the Hurr War.

XIII

IN PRAISE OF THE ROYAL SCOTS

General Sir Ian Hamilton issued the following orders on l;,t October 1900 : —
' Before leaving Komatipoort for the Rustenburg district, Ger-^ral Ian Hamilton
wishes to congratulate his force on the fine work which has been performed by
them since they marched out of Belfast on the 8rd of September 1900. During
this period they have driven the enemy out of his most formidable selected posi-
tions — first, on the main Lydenburg road, where *hey bad barred the progress of
the Natal Army ; and secondly, on the heights overlooking Lydenburg its' f.
They have also encountered and overcome every sort of natural obstacle, ajui
have carried the British flag tiirough tracts of waterless bush, and over ranges
of lofty mountains to the most remote frontier of the enemy. AH this has been
done with so much spirit and so cheerfully, as to excite the general officer com-
manding's greatest admiration, who will take the first opportunity of informing
Lord Roberts of the splendid work done by all ranks under his conunand.'

THE SCOTTISH YEOMANRY AT BOTHAVILLE

By Trooper A. S. Orr

Veby early on the morning of 6th November [1900] we were all astir, expecting,
however, only a lonjr march. ... A grand surprise awaited our troops. Behind
a farm, on the top (.in gentle rise, lay the whole of De Wet's force, numbering about
a thousand men, with guns and a large convoy. . . . A volley from Major Leam's
menroused them all to action. . . .

Our gunners, when the shooting began, galloped up to within four hundred
yards of the Boers, and at once came under a heavy fire. Two gims unlimbered
behind tlie main farm building, which had been seized and was still held by n few
men of the advance guard, and the other gun galloped off to the left. Colonel
Le Gallais and his staff, with Major Ross, rode up to view the situation from the
farm. Entering the house. Major Ross went to a window overlooking the Boer
position, where he offered a splendid target to the Boers. A volley from them
shattered the glass and woodwork, and the gallant Major fell severely wounded.
Colonel Le Gallais entering a few seconds later met with the same fate. . . .

The Boers now attacked with great vigour. Some crept forward among the
grass to short range, while others, moving abouc on their horses, galloped in here
and there to find a weak spot. The ground was so flat that go«i shooting was
difficult, and it allowed the Boers to get closer with impunity. The situation
was fast becoming serious. Our numbers were so small in comparison with
the Boers that we could not be very sparing with our fire, and the ammimition
was running dangerously short. . . .

About half-past eight, to our great relief, an orderly turned up with 1200
rounds of amniunition in bis food-bag, and half an hour later Knox and De

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Lisle arrived on the scene with reinforcements. With their help the Boers were
driven from the flnnlcs, nnd those at the farm surrounded. Preparations were
made fur a bayonet clmr(!e, but at 10.30 the white flag weut up. Not a man
•stirred till the Boers came out and laid down their arms; then great cheering all
round the la.lgarajmounccd that the surrender had talicn place. . . .

Great praise was given to all the units of Le Gallais's force engaged tl. ,t day,
and many individual men got special mention. Amongst them was our grand
old doctor (Surgeon-JIajor Naismith, D.S.O.), who seemed to bear a charmed life
while attending to the wounded at the farm. We gave him three cheers when
we heard of it at Kroonstnd, and he showed himself then, as always, rcadv w ith
a neat speech. ' Thank you, my lads, thank you 1 ' he said ; ' I am proud of it
for the honour to your company, for the honour to the Scottish Yeomanry.'

iiceltit/i Veomonry in Sotilh Africa.

SCOTLAND : THE WORLD MOTHER
By Wiljred Campbell

I3y crii^' ami luncly moor she stands,

Slutherof half the world's great men,
And kens them far by sea-wraeked lands

Or Orient jungle or Western fen.

And far f)nt 'mid the mad turmoil.

Or where the desert places keep
Their lonely hush, her children toil.

Or, wrapt in wide-world honour, sleep.

Whose sonps are first to heart and tongue
Wherever Scotsmen greet together

And, far out alien scenes among,
Go mad at the glint of a sprig of
heather.

IJy Effypt's simds or Western wave,
Slie kens her latest heroes rest,

With Scotland's honour o'er each grave.
And Britain's flag above each breast.

And some at home — her mother love
Kt'cps crooning wind-songs o'er their
graves,

Where Arthur's eastle looms above,
Or Strathy storms or Solway raves ;

Or Lomond unto Nevis bends

In olden love of elouds and dew ;

Where Trossachs unto Stirling sends
Greetings that build the years anew.

Out where the miles of heather sweep,
Her dust of legend in his breast,

'Neath aged Dryburgh's aisle and keep
Her wizard Walter takes his rest.

And her loved ploughman, he of Ayr,
More loved tlian any singer loved

By heart of man amid those rare
High souls the world hath tried and
proved ;

And he, her latest wayward child,

Ilcr Ixjuis of the magic pen.
Who sleeps by tropic crater piled.

Far, far, alas, from misted glen ;
^\'bo loved her, knew her, drew her so.

Beyond all common poet's whim; —
In dreams the whaups are calling low.

In sooth her heart is woe for him.
And tlicy, her warriors, greater none

K'er drew the blade of daring forth,
IF r Colin under Indian sun,

Her Donald of the fighting north.

Or he, her greatest hero, he

Who sleeps somewhere by Nilus' sands.
Grave Gordon, mightiest of those free

Great captains of her fighting bands.

Yea, these and myriad myriads more.
Who stormed the fort or ploughed
the main.

To free the wave or win the shore,
She calls m vain, she calls in vain.

Brave sons of her, far severed wide
By purpling peak and reeling foam ;

From western ridge or Orient side.
She calls them home, she calls them
home.

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And far, from eost to western sea,
The answering woid comes back tc
her:
' Our hands were slack, our hopes yae
free.
We answered to the blood astir ;

' The lite by kelpie loch wns dull.

The homeward slothful work wasdonc.
We followed where the world was full.
To dree the weird our fates had
spun.
' We built the brig, we reared the town.
We spanned the earth with lightning
gleam, ,

We ploughed, we f lught, 'mirt smile and
frown.
Where all the world's four corners
teem.
' But under all the surge of life.

The mad race-ftght for mastery.
Though foremost in the surgent strife.
Our hearts went back, went back to
thee.'
For the Scotsman's speech is wise and
slow, .

And the Scotsman's thought is hard
to ken.
But through all the yearnings of men
that go.
His heart is the heart of the northern
glen.
His song is the ^ng of the windy moor,
And the humming pipes of the squirl-
ing din.
And his love is the love of the shieling
door, .

And the smell of the smoking peat
within.

And nohap how much of the alien bloo.l

Ij crossed with the strain that holds

him fast, ,

'Mid the world's great ill and the world s

great good

He yearns to the Mother of men at last.

For there 's something strong and some-
thing true
In the wind where the sprig of heather
is blown.
And something great in the blood so blue
That makes him stand like a man alone.

Yea, give him the road and loose him free.
He sets his teeth to the fiercest blast.
For there 's never a toil in a far countne
But a Scotsman tackles it hard and
fast.
He builds their commerce, he sings their
songs.
He weaves their creeds with an iron
twist, .

And, making of laws or righting of
wrongs.
He grinds it all as theSeotsman s grist.

Yea there by crag and moor she stands.
This Mother of half a world's great

And "out' of the heart of her haunted
lands
She calls her children home again.

And, over the glens and the wild sea
floors.
She peers so still as she counts her
cost, -

With the whaups low-ealling over the
moors : , L n.

Woe, woe, for the great ones she hath
lost 1 '

,.d IUu.lr.Uoni by H.».t Sto.. .».' So«, I.m., l»M<"r